a powerful adaptation of the best selling book and the smash broadway play about the life of bessie and sadie delany and two colored sister who live past the age of 100. wonderfully play in their old age by ruby dee and diahann carroll and respectively and they tell their story in flashback to amy hill hearth ( play by amy madigan ) and a white new york time reporter . the flashback and present day scene do not have as much inspirational value in them a in the book and but really be powerful . however and certain aspect of the sister life and such a the inter racial background of their mother and the reason behind their father stern personality be not present clearly . you need to read the book to fully understand these thing . which be just as well and because the book just a great . aside from those flaw and it wonderfully do and perform and especially by dee and carroll and and a very powerful and educational movie .