Resting Place

1986

English

6.4

♡ 14

68%

Action

Drama

John Korty Director

CCH Pounder as Ada Johnson

Morgan Freeman as Luther Johnson

John Lithgow as Maj. Kendall Laird

Brian Tarantina as Sp4 Beyer

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.

The Ewok Adventure

1984

English

5.3

♡ 23

39%

parent child relationship

rescue

Sci-Fi

space marine

John Korty Director

Tiffany Brissette as Cindel

Guy Boyd as Jeremitt

Eric Walker as Mace

Hal Rayle as Weechee

Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1974

English

7.8

♡ 6

90%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

History

interracial relationship

John Korty Director

Bill Walker as Elder Banks

Roy Poole as Mister Robert

Thalmus Rasulala as Ned Age 42

Harold Sylvester as Young Man

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.

Redwood Curtain

5.8

John Korty Director

Debra Monk as Geneva, Laird's Sister

Lea Salonga as Geri Riordan

Catherine Hicks as Julia Riordan

John Lithgow as Laird Riordan

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father.

A Son's Promise

1990

English

6.7

♡ 3

85%

Action

Drama

Family

John Korty Director

Stephen Dorff as Charles O'Kelley

Ricky Schroder as Terry O'Kelley

Andrew Lowery as Tommy O'Kelley

David Andrews as Wayne O'Kelley

An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O'Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying. Anguished, the soon-to-be orphan makes a surprising grown-up decision: Terry promises to care for his six brothers and vows to keep the family together. Steadfast to his word, Terry takes on the struggles of parenthood, which yields some difficult and unpleasant surprises.