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Dove Entertainment & CBS present

Willa

directed by Joan Darling & Claudio Guzmán

“All she wanted was to be a mother, a lover, and a trucker!”

19791h 40mDrama

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Dove Entertainment & CBS present

Willa

directed by Joan Darling & Claudio Guzmán

“All she wanted was to be a mother, a lover, and a trucker!”

19791h 40mDrama

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§ Synopsis

Drama · TV Movie

A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned by her husband, leaves hash-slinging behind her to embark on a new career as a trucker in the rig her late father used to drive.

§ Keywords

what it's about

waitress female protagonist single mother truck driver trucking eighteen wheeler

§ Crew

behind the camera

Directors

Claudio Guzmán

Writer

Cinematography

Matthew F. Leonetti

Music

§ Cast

8 of 22

Deborah Raffin

as Willa Barnes

Clu Gulager

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman

Diane Ladd

Nancy Marchand

Mary Wickes

Bob Seagren

John Amos

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