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The Road to Galveston (1996)

The Road to Galveston (1996)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 1996, January 24
Directors: Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Stephen Root, Starletta DuPois, Alex Morris, Tess Harper, Penny Johnson Jerald, Dennis Letts, Cicely Tyson, Piper Laurie, Clarence Williams III, Brandon Hammond, Tony Frank, James McDaniel

Overview:

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).