The Road to Galveston
movie

Released January 24, 1996
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).
Cast

Cicely Tyson
as
Jordan Roosevelt

Piper Laurie
as
Wanda Kirkman

Tess Harper
as
Julia Archer

James McDaniel
as
Marcus Roosevelt Sr.

Starletta DuPois
as
Sally
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Salle Ellis
as
Gayle

Penny Johnson Jerald
as
Laney Roosevelt

Brandon Hammond
as
Marcus Roosevelt Jr.

Stephen Root
as
Ed Kirkman

Clarence Williams III
as
Christopher, the Caretaker

Dennis Letts
as
Roland Tate

Patti Yasutake
as
Nurse Dickerson
