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Heart and Souls (1993)

A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ron Underwood
CAST:  Robert Downey Jr.  •  Charles Grodin  •  Kyra Sedgwick  •  Elisabeth Shue

A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ron Underwood
CAST:  Robert Downey Jr.  •  Charles Grodin  •  Kyra Sedgwick  •  Elisabeth Shue

Westworld (1973)

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Crichton
CAST:  Yul Brynner  •  Richard Benjamin  •  James Brolin  •  Norman Bartold

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Crichton
CAST:  Yul Brynner  •  Richard Benjamin  •  James Brolin  •  Norman Bartold

The Night the City Screamed (1980)

A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Falk
CAST:  Georg Stanford Brown  •  Raymond Burr  •  David Cassidy  •  Robert Culp

A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Falk
CAST:  Georg Stanford Brown  •  Raymond Burr  •  David Cassidy  •  Robert Culp

Fun and Games (1980)

A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Smithee  •  Paul Bogart
CAST:  Valerie Harper  •  Cliff DeYoung  •  Max Gail  •  JoBeth Williams

A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Smithee  •  Paul Bogart
CAST:  Valerie Harper  •  Cliff DeYoung  •  Max Gail  •  JoBeth Williams

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)

Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Donner
CAST:  Linda Blair  •  Mark Hamill  •  Larry Hagman  •  Verna Bloom

Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Donner
CAST:  Linda Blair  •  Mark Hamill  •  Larry Hagman  •  Verna Bloom

Marathon (1980)

A bemused, mild-mannered accountant takes up jogging and a lithesome, young woman sprints into his life, inspiring him to enter a marathon, to the annoyance of his non-running wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jackie Cooper
CAST:  Bob Newhart  •  Herb Edelman  •  Richard Gautier  •  Anita Gillette

A bemused, mild-mannered accountant takes up jogging and a lithesome, young woman sprints into his life, inspiring him to enter a marathon, to the annoyance of his non-running wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jackie Cooper
CAST:  Bob Newhart  •  Herb Edelman  •  Richard Gautier  •  Anita Gillette

She'll Take Romance (1990)

A TV reporter leads a search for the most romantic man in Seattle and finds one for herself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Piers Haggard
CAST:  Linda Evans  •  Larry Poindexter  •  Delane Matthews  •  Heather Tom

A TV reporter leads a search for the most romantic man in Seattle and finds one for herself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Piers Haggard
CAST:  Linda Evans  •  Larry Poindexter  •  Delane Matthews  •  Heather Tom

Sins of the Mother (1991)

A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant belittlements and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts discovering the depths of his anguish, no one ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Patterson
CAST:  Elizabeth Montgomery  •  Dale Midkiff  •  Heather Fairfield  •  Talia Balsam

A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant belittlements and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts discovering the depths of his anguish, no one ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Patterson
CAST:  Elizabeth Montgomery  •  Dale Midkiff  •  Heather Fairfield  •  Talia Balsam

Marilyn and Me (1991)

Aspiring writer Robert Slatzer befriends Norma Jean Baker in 1946, the year she becomes Marilyn Monroe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Patterson
CAST:  Jesse Dabson  •  Joel Grey  •  Michael Cavanaugh  •  Terry Moore

Aspiring writer Robert Slatzer befriends Norma Jean Baker in 1946, the year she becomes Marilyn Monroe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Patterson
CAST:  Jesse Dabson  •  Joel Grey  •  Michael Cavanaugh  •  Terry Moore

Ruby and Oswald (1978)

A dramatic re-creation of the four-day span preceding and following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, drawn from authenticated events and eyewitness accounts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Stuart
CAST:  Michael Lerner  •  Frederic Forrest  •  Doris Roberts  •  Lou Frizzell

A dramatic re-creation of the four-day span preceding and following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, drawn from authenticated events and eyewitness accounts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Stuart
CAST:  Michael Lerner  •  Frederic Forrest  •  Doris Roberts  •  Lou Frizzell

Babo 73 (1964)

The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Downey Sr.
CAST:  Taylor Mead  •  Jim Antonio  •  Tom Gaines  •  Lawrence Wolf

The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Downey Sr.
CAST:  Taylor Mead  •  Jim Antonio  •  Tom Gaines  •  Lawrence Wolf

Ransom for a Dead Man (1972)

A brilliant tort attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Irving
CAST:  Peter Falk  •  Lee Grant  •  John Fink  •  Harold Gould

A brilliant tort attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Irving
CAST:  Peter Falk  •  Lee Grant  •  John Fink  •  Harold Gould

Family Flight (1972)

A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the California wilderness. Overcoming their differences, they concentrate on repairing the plane and attempt to build a makeshift runway which will help them escape the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marvin J. Chomsky
CAST:  Rod Taylor  •  Dina Merrill  •  Kristoffer Tabori  •  Janet Margolin

A bitterly divided family is forced to cooperate when their holiday plane crash-lands in the California wilderness. Overcoming their differences, they concentrate on repairing the plane and attempt to build a makeshift runway which will help them escape the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marvin J. Chomsky
CAST:  Rod Taylor  •  Dina Merrill  •  Kristoffer Tabori  •  Janet Margolin

All My Darling Daughters (1972)

A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Lowell Rich
CAST:  Robert Young  •  Raymond Massey  •  Eve Arden  •  Sharon Gless

A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Lowell Rich
CAST:  Robert Young  •  Raymond Massey  •  Eve Arden  •  Sharon Gless

And Baby Makes Six (1979)

A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Waris Hussein
CAST:  Colleen Dewhurst  •  Warren Oates  •  Timothy Hutton  •  Maggie Cooper

A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Waris Hussein
CAST:  Colleen Dewhurst  •  Warren Oates  •  Timothy Hutton  •  Maggie Cooper

Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978)

When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gordon Hessler
CAST:  Jessica Walter  •  Gretchen Corbett  •  Eve Plumb  •  Heather MacRae

When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, best friends, whom he had tried to play against each other in a game of divide and conquer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gordon Hessler
CAST:  Jessica Walter  •  Gretchen Corbett  •  Eve Plumb  •  Heather MacRae

Deadly Harvest (1972)

An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael O'Herlihy
CAST:  Richard Boone  •  Patty Duke  •  Michael Constantine  •  Jack Kruschen

An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet agents are stalking him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael O'Herlihy
CAST:  Richard Boone  •  Patty Duke  •  Michael Constantine  •  Jack Kruschen