A Cross To Bear Airs On GMC TV
GMC TV, America’s favorite channel for uplifting music and family entertainment, presents the Original World Television Premiere Movie A Cross to Bear, starring newcomer Danielle Deadwyler, award-winning veteran actress and director Kim Fields, NAACP Image Award nominee Malinda Williams, and Jackie Long.
The inspirational drama about a young girl’s long road to redemption makes its world television premiere on Saturday, February 18th at 7:00 PM ET, with encore telecasts 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM.
Based on an original screenplay written by Cas Sigers Beedles and Terri J. Vaughn, A Cross to Bear tells the unflinching and inspiring story of Erica (Deadwyler), a would-be dancer with no family connections who finds
herself fighting alcoholism and living on the streets with her newborn child after being left by her boyfriend. One illfated night, she takes refuge from the cold in an empty building with a handful of other homeless people and her life is shattered. Traumatized and now living at the home of Joan (Fields)—a former nurse who has dedicated her life to helping women like Erica, Tina (Tamika Tanner) and Fae (Williams) get back on their feet, Erica struggles to forge a new path for herself. As the cause of Erica’s personal hell is revealed, slowly, with the help of Joan’s unique brand of tough love and the friendship of Tina, a former crack baby, and the guidance of other women who have found new beginnings at Joan’s House, Erica finds the will to live and learns the redemptive power of forgiveness.
A Nina Holiday Entertainment Production, A Cross to Bear also features appearances by Angie Stone, Kenny Lattimore, Lecrae Moore and Karon Riley. The film is produced by Sigers Beedles, Terri J. Vaughn and Tandria Potts (“As Written: Chrisette Michele”), with Shandra McDonald-Bradford coproducing. Tandria Potts also directed the film.
A Cross to Bear (theme song) “Starting Today” JAE feat. Angie Stone
