a wonderful film version of the best selling book and smash broadway play about the life of sadie and bessie delany and two african american sister who both live over the age of 100 and tell their story of witness a century of american history . ruby dee and diahann carroll give very good performance a bessie and sadie and respectively . amy madigan also be good a amy hill hearth and the white new york time reporter whose article about the sister launch the book and etc . many of the flashback scene and even many of the present day one be very powerful and if not quite as inspirational a in the book . that be the only real drawback and combine with the fact that certain aspect of the story be not present clearly and such a the inter racial background of the sister mother and why their father be so stern . but other than that and a very well do and excellently perform and powerful movie .