LOS ANGELES, U.S – Award-winning Whoopi Goldberg will headline and executive produce the Lifetime Original Movie A Day Late and a Dollar Short, based on the New York Times bestseller by Terry McMillan.  Goldberg will play irascible matriarch Viola Price who she sets out to fix her fractured family before she dies upon learning that her next asthma attack is likely to kill her.

The project reunites Goldberg with McMillan, having co-starred opposite Angela Basset in the motion picture adaptation of McMillan’s novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back.  Production on A Day Late and a Dollar Short will take place this summer for a 2014 premiere.  Produced by Ostar Productions, the film will be executive produced by Stephen Tolkin, Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Leonardis, Jeffrey Hayes and Bill Haber.  Tolkin will direct from a script by Shernold Edwards. A+E Networks will handle international sales for A Day Late and a Dollar Short.

“Terry McMillan is one of America’s most beloved writers and A Day Late and a Dollar Short combines her signature emotional storytelling with the complex characters viewers identify with and love.  We are thrilled to be working again with Whoopi Goldberg, who will be emptying her enormous talents both in front of and behind the camera,” said Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President, General Manager, of Lifetime.