From back in the day to the present. I just saw The Miracle Of Kathy Miller on YouTube. I'm hooked. Any others?
What made-for-TV movies would you recommend?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | October 20, 2020 1:20 PM |
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 21, 2017 7:29 PM |
Who is you, gurl? (1992)
A gay murder - set in Rhode Island.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 21, 2017 7:45 PM |
Boy In A Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 21, 2017 7:55 PM |
My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke and Al Freeman Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 21, 2017 7:59 PM |
I think I won a few awards--are they called Emmas?--for these things. I gave them to my housekeeper.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 21, 2017 8:01 PM |
Isn't BAD RONALD *the* classic?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 21, 2017 8:01 PM |
Small Sacrifices
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 21, 2017 8:01 PM |
Elizabeth Montgomery in Between the Darkness and the Dawn.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 21, 2017 8:04 PM |
anything with Elizabeth Montgomery, Lindsay Wagner or Miss Sally Field.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 21, 2017 8:16 PM |
Lace ("Which one of you bitches is my mother?")
Consenting Adults
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 21, 2017 9:03 PM |
Just watched this yesterday . . .
Death Ride To Osaka (Girls Of The White Orchid) 1983
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 21, 2017 9:05 PM |
Right To Die with Raquel Welch, who plays a woman with ALS and fights to die. She's actually pretty good and I believe it's on YouTube.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 21, 2017 9:23 PM |
Stone Pillow
Riding the Bus with My Sister
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 21, 2017 9:30 PM |
All these are great! I just watched "Small Sacrifices" the other day. I would add "Fatal Vision" to the list and "Blind Faith" where Tracey Gold met her husband, the son of the real life killer in the story.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 22, 2017 7:35 AM |
From the 70's:
Crowhaven Farm
Born Innocent
Sweet Hostage
Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic
Five Desperate Women
The Spell
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 22, 2017 8:12 AM |
DOOR TO DOOR starring William H. Macy and Helen Mirren. Magical, heartwarming, won tons of awards.
THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT starring Richard Dreyfuss, captures the chaos inside the White House....
Too many to name in terms of HBO but RKO 281, which was about the making of Citizen Kane, is a classic. It was supposed to be a Ridley Scott movie but he couldn't get the budget he wanted so it ended up at HBO with a different director.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 22, 2017 8:16 AM |
"The Legend of Lizzie Borden"
"Dark Night of the Scarecrow"
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 22, 2017 8:43 AM |
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones with Desi Arnaz Jr. and MISS Christopher Norris.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 22, 2017 9:01 AM |
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 22, 2017 10:45 AM |
"Home for the Holidays", a Christmas thriller starring Sally Field, Jessica Walter, Jill Haworth and Eleanor Parker as sisters, alongside Julie Harris and Walter Brennan.
"Haunts of the Very Rich", about a group of vacationers at a luxury resort, and featuring DL faves Donna Mills and Michael Lembeck, alongside Cloris Leachman, Robert Reed, Ed Asner, Anne Francis and Moses Gunn.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 22, 2017 10:46 AM |
I second "Haunts of the Very Rich"
Also, don't miss Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, dated early 70s So-Cal hippie movie with Sally Field.
Any of the Linda Blair or Eve Plumb star-ers from the70s.
Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black.
Short Walk to Daylight, about a group of NYC subway whose riders who claw their way out of a tunnel after an earthquake.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 22, 2017 11:03 AM |
Tonya and Nancy: The Inside Story (1994).
The first TV movie rushed out about the scandal, so you know it's good.
Also, both of the Amy Fisher movies.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 22, 2017 11:04 AM |
One of My Wives is Missing (1976) with Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Ashley and James Franciscus; OR
Vanishing Act (1986) with Mike Farrell, Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Fred Gwynne.
The 1986 version is a remake of the 1976 version. Both are excellent.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 22, 2017 11:17 AM |
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife with Melissa Gilbert and Joe Penny
ANYTHING with Valerie Bertinelli, but Young Love, First Love with Timothy Hutton is typical TV movie joy.
Can't beat the soap operatic drama of the 70s-80s made for TV movie. You had to live your life during commercial breaks (homework, use the bathroom, get a snack) so god forbid you wouldn't miss a minute of the drama. Good times.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 22, 2017 11:36 AM |
What am I, chopped liver??
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 22, 2017 11:41 AM |
The Love War (1970) with Lloyd Bridges and Miss Angie Dickinson
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 22, 2017 11:50 AM |
Revenge, with Shelley Winters as an unhinged, overbearing mom who kidnaps a man and locks him in a cage, because she thinks he seduced her daughter and broke her heart...
Kathy Bates in Misery has nothing on her.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 22, 2017 12:20 PM |
Poor little rich girl, the tv mini series from the 80s. Starring farrah fawcett as heiress/socialite barbara hutton. It's a really fastening film. I'd like to see a remake of it a really well produced up dated version.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 22, 2017 12:39 PM |
Trilogy of Terror
Dawn:Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
Like Normal People
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 22, 2017 12:44 PM |
"Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life" is pretty funny. I love these over-the-top cautionary tales. Here's the plot summary from IMDB:
[quote] A high school kid develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 22, 2017 12:47 PM |
Brian Dennehy and Treat Williams made some detective ish, crime noir movies but I can't remember the names. I just remember I liked them
And let's not forget Jeremy Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer, and Brian Dennehy as John Wayne Gacy.
My favorite was Helter Skelter the Charles Manson thing.
Of course the Patti Duke and Elizabeth Montgomery Lifetime-ish soap opera crime movies are good too. I love the formula of infidelity and murder, and I love serial killer movies. Wasn't there a really good movie about Ted Bundy with mark Harmon? And let's not forget The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer about Ira Einhorn. I was shocked to realize this is one of Naomi Watt's first movies.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 22, 2017 1:26 PM |
A couple of good AIDS movies: Our Sons (with Hugh Grant, Julie Andrews and Ann-Margaret) and An Early Frost (with Aiden Quinn)
A good gay film: Doing Time on Maple Drive
A good movie about a single mother who becomes homeless: God Bless the Child with Mare Winningham
A good movie about teen suicide: Surviving - and check out the cast: Marsha Mason, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Ringwald, River Pheonix and Len Cariou, and featuring the Pat Benetar Song "We Belong"
Someone above mentioned Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, but better than that was the sequel, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn because it features Leigh McCloskey as a male prostitute.
For sheer nuttiness, there's Crawlspace, starring Teresa Wright & Arthur Kennedy, about a weird youth living in the crawlspace of an elderly childless couple's home.
A pre-Unmarried Woman Jill Clayburgh stars in Hustling, and a pre-everything (or at least everything significant) Angelina Jolie stars in Gia
An early (if not the first) HBO movie, a thriller called Blackout, starring Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan & Michael Beck.
Another HBO one - Citizen Cohn starring James Woods as Roy Cohn & Lee Grant as his mother
Steven Spielberg's first two movies were made for TV - Duel (starring Dennis Weaver & a persistent truck) and Something Evil (with Sandy Dennis moving into a possessed house)
Two from John Carpenter - Someone Is Watching Me (with Lauren Hutton & her lesbian neighbor Adrienne Barbeau dealing with a stalker) and Elvis (starring Kurt Russell & Shelley Winters)
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 22, 2017 1:55 PM |
OMG - - In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan: Piper Laurie & Brian Keith!!!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 22, 2017 2:56 PM |
Solarbabies
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 22, 2017 3:06 PM |
Beverly Hills Madame starring DL Fave Faye!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 22, 2017 3:18 PM |
Re. "Helter Skelter"--the original 1976 version is a made-for-tv classic, but the 2004 remake is much better, imho; less cheesy, more detail, story from Kasabian's p.o.v., and, more importantly, Jeremy Davies' Manson is miles better than Steve Railsback's...
"James Dean", the 2001 biopic that made James Franco a star...
Two great murder mysteries from the legendary writing team of Levinson & Link (creators of "Columbo"): "Murder By Natural Causes" (1979) and "Rehearsal For Murder" (1982)
All films are on youtube
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 22, 2017 6:08 PM |
Reflections of Murder (a remake of the French thriller Diabolique) - starring Joan Hackett, Tuesday Weld & Sam Waterson
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 22, 2017 6:49 PM |
The Users - 1978 with Jaclyn Smith and Tony Curtis
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 22, 2017 8:32 PM |
LOVED this movie. Can't believe it's almost 50 years old. Gawd I'm old.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 22, 2017 8:56 PM |
Faye Dunaway and Bette Davis in The Disappearance of Aimee 1976 - featured in the last episode of FEUD: Bette and Joan
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 22, 2017 8:58 PM |
And Faye Dunaway and a pre-Doogie Howser in COLD SASSY TREE 1989. It's really terrific with a great ensemble cast. It's unlisted on youtube in two parts.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 22, 2017 9:08 PM |
"Someone I Touched" with 50 something Cloris Leachman somehow pregnant, and getting an STD after her husband cheats with a younger woman.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 22, 2017 9:16 PM |
Another thread reminded me of Martha, INC with Cybil Shepard.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 22, 2017 9:30 PM |
The Last Best Year
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 22, 2017 9:37 PM |
The Facts of Life Goes To Paris
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 22, 2017 10:37 PM |
r43 That sounds familiar (that it was mentioned) but why was it mentioned? I can't think of a context for it. Was Faye Dunaway portrayed in the last ep?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 22, 2017 10:39 PM |
A Home of our Own, with the esteemed Kathy Bates and a teenage Edward Furlong. Gets me every time.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 22, 2017 11:16 PM |
Other classics from the 70s:
Brians's Song
The Longest Night
Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 23, 2017 12:27 AM |
Crap r51 - That IS one helluva tearjerker!
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 23, 2017 1:05 AM |
Many of the True Crime genre:
Fatal Vision. (Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald = Gary Cole)
The Deliberate Stranger. ( Ted Bundy = Mark Harmon)
Blind Faith. (Robert Marshall = Robert Urich)
The Perfect Husband. (Scott Peterson = Dean Cain)
Helter-Skelter. (Charlie Manson = Steve Railsback)
A Woman Scorned, I and II. (Betty Broderick - Meredith Baxter)
by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 23, 2017 1:15 AM |
Fallen Angel with Dana Hill in the 80s. About child pornography.
Watching it as a child with my mother who repeatedly said that things like that didn't happen, when I assure you, she knew they did, seared that movie into my head.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 23, 2017 1:17 AM |
Thanks, r38! I'm taking note!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 23, 2017 1:18 AM |
Thanks r42
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 23, 2017 2:05 AM |
Love, Lies and Murder. 1991 made for tv crime drama starring Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, Clancy Brown and Cynthia Nixon.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 23, 2017 2:17 AM |
The Switch, the 1993 movie that was based on the true story of Larry McAffee, who was paralyzed and wanted to end his life by creating a switch with poison in it.
Gary Cole played the lead and Craig T. Nelson was his DJ friend.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 23, 2017 2:27 AM |
I like the Steve Railsback Helter Skelter best. I guess that was the first one.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 23, 2017 2:36 AM |
Did anyone ever see there's something about Amelia? Ted Danson plays a sexual predator who molests a young underaged teenager. Either that or it's about incest. Anyway it's Sex & Ted Danson as a abd guy.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 23, 2017 2:37 AM |
The best tv movies starred a beloved sitcom actor/actress taking a malevolent turn. It was all that we as a nation could talk about from day we got our TV guide in the mail until the night it aired and beyond.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 23, 2017 2:56 AM |
not my kid starring George Segal and Stockard Channing.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 23, 2017 3:02 AM |
Ritchie, Robbie Benson
by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 23, 2017 3:04 AM |
[quote]Did anyone ever see there's something about Amelia? Ted Danson plays a sexual predator who molests a young underaged teenager. Either that or it's about incest. Anyway it's Sex & Ted Danson as a abd guy.
He was molesting his young daughter; that movie was really heartbreaking.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 23, 2017 4:24 AM |
I recall a movie where Mary Tyler Moore played crazy, paranoid Mary Todd Lincoln: "Fifty cents will See You On Your Back!"
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 23, 2017 4:35 AM |
Since "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" is hot again thanks to "Feud", you might be interested in the 1990 remake with the Redgrave sisters.
"Special Bulletin" -- a group of anti-nuclear terrorists make their own atomic bomb and use it to try and force the government into disabling its weapons. The movie is presented as a live news broadcast.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 23, 2017 4:36 AM |
The Day After
Nuclear war
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 23, 2017 4:37 AM |
"Seven in Darkness," in which a charter plane carrying blind adults crashes and the survivors must find their was out of the wilderness to civilization. Stars the recently deceased Datalounge empress Dina Merrill.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 23, 2017 6:37 AM |
*find their WAY ^^^
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 23, 2017 6:39 AM |
Solarbabies has teen boy butt in 80s shorts.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 23, 2017 1:50 PM |
Shattered Innocence, starring Melinda Dillon and Jonna Lee.
A high school cheerleader from Kansas goes to California, becomes a nude model, then a porno star, then kills herself. I think it was based on a true story.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 24, 2017 3:53 PM |
Never seen it but a friend recommends Night Slaves. Anyone here familiar with it?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 24, 2017 3:56 PM |
Kate's Secret owns this thread
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 24, 2017 3:57 PM |
Elizabeth Montgomery, Patty Duke and Lindsay Wagner used to make great made for television movies. Always goods scripts and they always delivered powerhouse performances. Joanne Woodward also, when she chose to work on television, would do high quality stuff.
Then Lifetime came and ruined everything with their frau-in-jeopardy formula.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 24, 2017 4:32 PM |
Sister, Sister with Diahann Carroll and Irene Cara
The Women of Brewster Place
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 24, 2017 10:51 PM |
My sister, Myself
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 25, 2017 3:40 PM |
I Know My First Name Is Steven (Corin Nemic & Ferris Bueller's mom)
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (Lindsay Wagner)
In A Child's Name (Valerie Bertinelli)
The Tracy Thurman Story (Nancy McKeon)
The Marla Hanson Story (Susan from Melrose Place)
The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (Joanna Kerns)
The Leona Helmsley Story (Suzanne Phleshette)
The Murder of Mary Phagan
My Boyfriend's Back (Sandy Duncan, Judith Light, Jill Eikenberry)
The Jacksons: The American Dream
Both Roseanne ones
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 25, 2017 8:41 PM |
I forgot Crash Course featuring every teen from an 80s tv show and some adults
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 25, 2017 8:44 PM |
Was that the one about a driving school?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 25, 2017 9:16 PM |
A Girl Named Sooner
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 25, 2017 9:20 PM |
R50 No Faye wasn't portrayed in the last episode of FEUD, but Bette's relationship with Faye and Crawford's praising of Faye was addressed. Another good Dunaway TV movie is A Family Divided, where Faye's son participates in the group rape of a girl who dies. It's pretty intense. AND it co-stars disgraced actor Stephen Collins!
by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 25, 2017 9:57 PM |
Lifetime/Hallmark have churned out a shitload of those: "The Husband She Met Online", "The Wife He Met Online", "The Dog Walker they met online", you name it...
by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 25, 2017 10:06 PM |
The heart-touching "Something For Joey." It's about the relationship between college football player John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, who's struggling with leukemia. Geraldine Page and Marc Singer are among those who star in this, and the final scene (where John Cappelletti gives his acceptance speech for the Heisman award) will cause you to shed a few tears.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 26, 2017 1:43 PM |
Oh my god Alex: The Life of a Child. Kid with cystic fibrosis. Her last request is root beer. Craig T Nelson the dad (I think he played the dad) goes out and buys it. She dies before he gets back. He pours it all over the lawn. We were "Beaches" type sobbing over that one.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 26, 2017 2:55 PM |
There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 26, 2017 3:00 PM |
[quote]There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
Actually, wait, does that count as made-for-tv? Maybe it's more of a documentary? Shit, oops!
Well, anyway, it's pretty haunting and worth watching. Although you will probably be infuriated at the end.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 26, 2017 3:01 PM |
Yes, R81
by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 26, 2017 3:11 PM |
"The Jericho Mile". Peter Strauss. Was issued in DVD, but never in a US compatible format as far as I know. Fantastic movie with one of the better endings. Some bits are on YouTube.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 26, 2017 3:18 PM |
Has anyone said "The Burning Bed" w/Farrah Fawcett yet?
by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 26, 2017 5:35 PM |
Death of a Cheerleader with Tori Spelling and Kellie Martin
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 31, 2017 5:43 AM |
Family Sins with Kirstie Alley is campy and fun.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 31, 2017 6:01 AM |
Two Aussie TV movies: Flair (1990) with Heather Thomas (basically Return to Eden with an American lead), and Outback Bound (1988) with Donna Mills.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 31, 2017 6:04 AM |
I always liked:
"Winner Takes All" starring Shirley Jones
and
"A Case of Rape" starring Elizabeth Montgomery
by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 31, 2017 6:31 AM |
Not a TV movie per say, but in the same vein and totally inspired by them. Kristy McNichol plays a brilliant flutist who was crippled with polio since birth. She fakes a cast injury so she can take a nice holiday and flirt with guys.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 31, 2017 6:57 AM |
Meredith Baxter in 'Kate's Secret' also known as 'The Bulimia Movie'.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 31, 2017 7:49 AM |
Mary Tyler Moore plays a badass cafe owner and teams up again with Ed Asner in the thriller Payback.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 31, 2017 7:54 AM |
Kate Jackson and Tracy Gold in the satanic themed 'A Kidnapping In the Family'
by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 31, 2017 7:58 AM |
I prefer this bulimia movie
"Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story" starring Crystal Bernard.
"I only throw up as far as the carrots."
by Anonymous | reply 101 | May 31, 2017 7:58 AM |
Eating disorder TV movie starrring Tracey Gold in in For The Love Of Nancy. Jill Clayburgh and Willam Devane play the parents of the anorexic.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 31, 2017 1:10 PM |
James Brolin did a couple of ABC movies of the week in the early '70s.
One was A Short Walk to Daylight, which followed a subway car full of passengers as they tried to escape from a tunnel after an earthquake hits NYC. . .
by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 31, 2017 1:56 PM |
. . . the other is Trapped, in which he's stuck overnight in a department store filled with guard dogs.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 31, 2017 1:58 PM |
Guyana Tragedy had a profound impact on my life.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 31, 2017 2:05 PM |
"The Late Shift" - HBO movie about the behind-the-scenes network politics responsible for the changes in late-night talk-show hosts, after the retirement of Johnny Carson from the Tonight Show on NBC. The Leno/Letterman impersonations aren't the greatest but the story is interesting. Kathy Bates as Leno's manager is a riot.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | June 4, 2017 6:27 AM |
Believe it or not, the fantastic dark comedy/thriller "The Last Seduction" is a TV movie, or at least started out that way. It first aired on tv before being released in theaters.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | June 4, 2017 6:36 AM |
A good one that I didn't see mentioned is Women In Chains. Lois Nettleton goes undercover as a convict in a women's prison in order to investigate some suspicious (and deadly!) goings on there lately. Something - I forget what - happens to her law enforcement contact on the outside so that nobody knows Lois is in there and that she's not an actual criminal. Ida Lupino (!) is an evil bitch of a prison guard. Good supporting cast. Also: The Stranger Within. Barbra Eden in a new twist on Rosemary's Baby, but definitely worth watching.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | June 4, 2017 6:58 AM |
The Tenth Kingdom! A wonderful mini-series about two humans (daughter and father) who go through a mirror portal to another world....only to find out that that world is where "fairy tale" characters live. The time frame she shows up in all of the great Queens are dead, Queen Snow White, Riding Hood, Sleeping beauty etc EXCEPT for Queen Cinderella (played by Anne Margaret) who must determine whether Wendell (the grandson of Snow White) is worthy of the throne. Wendell is an annoying, classist bitch who is turned into a bitch by his evil step mother. I have it on DVD and I have the soundtrack. What I like about it is that it isn't related to Disney, used to love "Once Upon a Time" but all the Disney character tie ins became annoying. ---The tenth Kingdom has some favorite English actors of mine as well.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | June 4, 2017 7:09 AM |
I just watched Finding Neverland on LMN. It was shown earlier this week and replayed tonight. I would say whether you are an MJ fan or not, I highly recommend it. The actor that portrayed him was outstanding. Props go to the makeup people as well, but not only did he have the dance moves down his acting was amazing. The actor that played the heavy set body guard who co wrote the book this movie was based on was also very good. The movie mainly covered his last few years with his children (whom I doubt he was the donor for with the exception of "Blanket" maybe) and it gave a peak into his life at that time. I would be surprised if the actor who portrayed him didn't get at least get an Emmy nomination.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | June 4, 2017 7:16 AM |
Toothy DL fave Loretta Swit stars in the 1982 boardroom comedy/drama "Games Mother Never Taught You" (based on the best-selling book, sadly obscure and forgotten and never released in any video format).
by Anonymous | reply 112 | June 4, 2017 8:09 AM |
In the Killing of Richie (Robby Benson), I was always impressed/intrigued by the secret drug den Richie had in his bedroom. Did he build it himself or did it come with the house?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | June 4, 2017 8:50 AM |
A Killer Among Friends staring Patty Duke. Based on a true story. Another bulimia themed favorite: Secret Life of Mary-Margaret: Portrait of a Bulimic ironically starring the anorexic Calista Flockhart. And my all time favorite, the 1979 movie Sooner or Later. Rex Smith was a hottie and Denise Miller was adorable. It didn't hurt that I was 13 at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | January 23, 2020 2:39 PM |
Bermuda Depths from 1978. Starring the beautiful Connie Seneca and her giant, ancient pet sea turtle. (and briefly, Carl Weathers)
by Anonymous | reply 115 | January 23, 2020 2:47 PM |
Several of my favorites that I wanted to mention ("The Queen of Mean", "Short Walk to Daylight", "Revenge") have been mentioned here. There was a series of films (starting with "The House Without a Christmas Tree") starring Jason Robards that are very good. Another excellent film is "The Gift of Love" reuniting "Anyone Can Whistle" stars Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | January 23, 2020 3:34 PM |
I liked the ones Helen Lawson made in the '70s and '80s:
"Mother of the Year" -- Helen plays a seemingly perfect All-American mother but she comes to blows with her rebellious daughter. The scene in which she gets home from the PTA meeting and starts screaming "Is this pot?! Is this pot?!" deserves a place in DL's camp canon.
"The Last American Secretary" -- Helen plays Sally Johnson who after forty years of loyal service is fired. Constance McCashin plays her attorney daughter. I think it's still up on YouTube. Worth watching even if it makes no sense for her to have a framed photo of herself on her desk just to dump in the trash.
"Don't Drink Out Loud" -- Helen plays a homeless alcoholic in this one. It's a sort of precursor to Stone Pillow. Her sister (Nancy Dussault only agrees to take her in if she gives up drinking. A bit sappy, but watching her get back on her feet is heartwarming.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | January 23, 2020 3:46 PM |
Eve Arden as Hildegard Withers (based on the RKO series of mysteries in the 1930's), a pre-Murder She Wrote attempt at a pilot, in "A Very Missing Person". She is hysterical trying to speak slang and looks hysterical in a motorcycle side car. The hippies she encounters think that her hat (actually quite hideous) is groovy, man! She won't leave it with them because she's afraid that they'll smoke it! Love her here in her "brain bucket".
by Anonymous | reply 118 | January 23, 2020 4:06 PM |
A Family Divided is terrific.
Our Faye has to come to terms with the fact that her ideal son is capable of participating in a gang rape resulting in the girl's death.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | January 23, 2020 6:07 PM |
A Killing in a Small Town with Barbara Hershey freaked me out.
The actual axe murder scene is terrifying, even though they don't show anything graphic.
Highly recommended.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | January 23, 2020 6:16 PM |
‘Winnie’ starring Meredith Baxter Birney as an adult ‘tard who suddenly has to learn to fend for herself in the world when her caretaker dies. Heartbreaking.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | January 23, 2020 6:39 PM |
The two Betty Broderick movies starring Meredith Baxter. A Woman Scorned and Her Final Fury. It doesnt get any better than these.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | January 23, 2020 6:48 PM |
Oh man R121 that reminded me of this one with the heartthrob of my youth, Shawn Cassidy.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | January 23, 2020 6:59 PM |
[italic] Black Market Baby [/italic] (1977) with Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz Jr., Jessica Walter, David Doyle, Tom Bosley, and Bill Bixby.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | October 20, 2020 8:47 AM |
Has somebody mentioned that movie that Joan Rivers wrote starring Stockard Channing and Ed Asner?
by Anonymous | reply 125 | October 20, 2020 8:51 AM |
Verna: USO Girl starring Sissy Spacek, Sally Kellerman, William Hurt for PBS. Shown on Great Performances in 1978. It's an absolute gem and almost impossible to find these days. It's never rerun and the DVD went out of print very quickly. But I just found it on youtube.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | October 20, 2020 1:20 PM |