Will (1981)
1h 10m
Running Time
January 1, 1981Release Date
Plot.
A girls’ basketball coach is fighting through a heroin addiction while mentoring a 12-year-old street kid adopted by Will and his wife.
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Cast & Crew.
Obaka Adedunyo
Will
Robert Dean
Little Brother
Loretta Devine
Actress
Audrey Maple
Audrey
Jessie Maple
Director
Ellwoodson Williams
Bonaker
Mimi Ayers
LaVern Hampton
J.W. Smith
Jeff
Jesse D. Goins
Jewell
Darryl Alladice
Roy
Maiwanda Bullock
Basketball Coach
John Reed
Referee
Reno Huntley, Jr.
Boy on Stair
Dorothi Fox
Lady Eating
Jewell Butler
Man on Stair
Anthony Wisdom
Writer
Details.
Wiki.
Will is a 1981 American drama film directed by Jessie Maple. It was the first independent feature-length film directed by an African-American woman. The movie was filmed on location in Harlem with a budget of $12,000 and featured an as-yet unknown actress, Loretta Devine, in her first film role.Will won an award at the Athens International Film Festival and was used as an educational film at many New York drug rehabilitation centers. In 2013, the film was restored by the New York Women in Film and Television's Women's Film Preservation Fund.