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Lucy Calls the President

1977

Lucy Calls the President

1977
5
Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at her house. Now Lucy has her hands full as family, friends and Secret Service agents invade her home in preparation for the big dinner summit.
Me & Mrs. Jones

2003

Me & Mrs. Jones

2003
6
A top tabloid journalist poses as a political fundraiser to get dirt on the prime minister, but things take a turn when the two begin to fall for one another.
Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

1986

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

1986
1
A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
My Brother's Keeper

1995

My Brother's Keeper

1995
1
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Lost for Words

1999

Lost for Words

1999
7
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?
God's New Plan

1999

God's New Plan

1999
5
Fact-based story about a woman facing her impending death and forced to let her baby's nurse become an integral part of her family's life to aid the future care of the child and her husband.
Homeward Bound

1980

Homeward Bound

1980
1
The relationship among a divorced man, his incurably ill teenage son, and his long-estranged father is explored when the youngster joins his dad for one final summer vacation and they end up at the grandfather's vineyard where he reconciles the two older men.
King Lear

1998

King Lear

1998
8
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Miracle on the 17th Green

1999

Miracle on the 17th Green

1999
6
A 50 year old adman (Robert Urich) loses his job. Rather than facing trying to find a new job, he decides to try to make it on the senior golf tour. This causes him to neglect his wife (Meredith Baxter) and family.
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

1987

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

1987
6
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Remembrance Of Love

1982

Remembrance Of Love

1982
6
Joe Rabin is a Holocaust survivor. After the war he went to America, married someone and had a family. Today, he is on his way to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. It seems that he has another reason for going. It seems like during the war, he had a girlfriend and they were separated and she was pregnant. He has never found out what happened to her, or their baby, he hopes to find out now.
Chantilly Lace

1993

Chantilly Lace

1993
10
A group of middle-aged women get together at a secluded house to learn about themselves.
Perilous

2000

Perilous

2000
5
A lawyer is on a business trip to St. Petersburg. When a beautiful woman on the run runs into him and asks for help, he is thrown into a dangerous world of jewel thieves and gangsters.
Gunrush

2009

Gunrush

2009
6
Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is shot dead.
Cliffy

2013

Cliffy

2013
7
Set against the backdrop of the early eighties, Cliffy retraces his extraordinary journey from famously training in gumboots among cow paddocks through the epic six-day period of the ultra marathon and his emergence as Australia's most unlikely sporting hero. Based on a true story.
Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996

Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996
10
Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Firing Squad

1991

Firing Squad

1991
10
Based on the controversial case of Pvt. Joseph Pringle, a Canadian soldier convicted of murder in Italy in 1945 and executed by firing squad.
The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid

1990

The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid

1990
6
A sophisticated lawyer, who is always the bridesmaid but never the bride, gets romantically involved with her down-to-earth secretary.
A Merry Mirthworm Christmas

1984

A Merry Mirthworm Christmas

1984
7
A Merry Mirthworm Christmas is an animated television special, produced by Perennial Pictures. It premiered on the Showtime Cable Network in 1984. The film features a cast of Mirthworms which are described as cuddly little critters about two inches long, who live in the tiny town of Wormingham.
The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story

1994

The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story

1994
5
Married couples, unable to conceive, are thrilled to find they are going to become parents, thanks to a larger-than-life "miracle doctor" and his unusual treatments.