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Director: Donald Shebib    More Info
Starring: Will Sampson, Don Francis, Charles Fields, Chris Wiggins, Geoffrey Bowes, Mary Pirle

 This is a nice little story about early 19th-century American farm life. A young boy (Charles Fields) befriends an Indian (Will Sampson), and, through their friendship, the Indian fights his problem with alcoholism.

Director: Vincent McEveety    More Info
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, John Vernon, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld, Elyssa Davalos, Joaquin Garay III

 The "Love Bug"–the intelligent Volkswagen, Herbie–is back. Pete (Stephen W.Burns) has inherited Herbie, and he and his friend D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) take Herbie to Brazil for the Grand Primio race. Along the way, Herbie plays the matador in a bull ring, and more complications await as they encounter a smuggling ring. But, Herbie, of course, foils its plans to steal the gold.

Director: Charles Jarrott    More Info
Starring: Elliott Gould, Genevieve Bujold, Rick Schroder, Vincent Gardenia, Tammy Lauren, John Fujioka, Yuki Shimoda, John P. Ryan, Dana Elcar, Ruth Manning

 Following their forced landing on a Pacific island, Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) is faced with the dilemma of how to survive with two stow-away kids and a cargo of animals. The solution is to convert the plane into a seaworthy vessel and sail home. Fair Disney.

Director: Henning Schellerup    More Info
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Dick Butkus, Meg Foster, James Griffith, Paul Sand, Laura Campbell, John Sylvester White, Michael Rudd, Steve Allen, Gary Coleman

 This TV version of the Washington Irving classic is filled with humor and good acting as nasty Brom Bones (Dick Butkus) attempts to scare off schoolmaster Ichabod Crane (Jeff Goldblum) when Katrina (Meg Foster) shows an interest in Ichabod. The past schoolmasters have met fateful ends, but Ichabod doesn't listen to Brom Bones' spooky tales–until one dark night when he is pursued by the Headless Horseman.

Director: Joe Camp    More Info
Starring: Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Robert Morley, Omar Sharif, Alan Sues, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Vernon, John Stride, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

 Benji appears in his third film. Chevy Chase plays a murdered detective who is reincarnated in Benji's body. The plot is, of course, that Benji/Chase tries to find the killer.

Director: Robert Altman    More Info
Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Richard Libertini, Linda Hunt, Donald Moffat, MacIntyre Dixon

 This financially less-than-successful rendition of the cartoon character who is "strong to the finish because he eats his spinach" is still OK, but slow, fare as Robin Williams plays the "human" version of Popeye the sailorman, and Shelley Duvall plays the light of his life, Olive Oyl. Popeye and Olive Oyl get together, and Popeye adopts Swee'pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt), but problems lie ahead with Bluto (Paul L. Smith).

Director: Jack B. Hively    More Info
Starring: Kurt Ida, Dan Monahan, Brock Peters, Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Lurene Tuttle, Mike Mazurki, Jack Kruschen, Don Haggerty, Helen Kleeb

 In this made-for-TV offering of Mark Twain's story, Tom Sawyer (Dan Monahan) joins his best friend Huckleberry Finn (Kurt Ida) as they help runaway slave Jim (Brock Peters). The trio drifts down the Mississippi River on a raft, and, along the way, they run into con-men "the Duke" (Forrest Tucker) and "the Dauphin" (Larry Storch) and inadvertently become involved in their schemes.

Director: Mel Damski    More Info
Starring: Stephen Macht, Karen Carlson, Michael Hershewe, Hans Conried, John McIntire, Scott Brady, Murray Hamilton, John Malkovich, J.D. Cannon, Harold Gould

 A Chicago family moves from an affluent suburb to the integrated inner city in this good drama that received several Emmy nominations.

Director: Vincent McEveety    More Info
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Kathleen Nolan, Chris Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, Nanette Fabray, Lou Fant, Lucille Benson, Lonny Chapman, Frances Bay

 Amy Medford (Jenny Agutter) is a dedicated teacher in the early 1900s who leaves her home to teach at a school for the deaf and blind children.

Director: Charles Jarrott    More Info
Starring: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, James Hampton, Barbara Carrera, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Dana Elcar

 A cartoonist Woody Wilkins (Michael Crawford) dresses up as his cartoon superhero and becomes involved in an espionage case helping a Soviet agent, Natalia (Barbara Carrera), defect to the West.

Director: Ted Berman    More Info
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, John McIntire, John Fiedler, Corey Feldman

 Tod (voice of Mickey Rooney) is a young fox that is brought into a home after his father is killed. Among the household members is Copper (voice of Kurt Russell), a young hunting dog. As can be imagined, humorous problems develop in their relationship as they mature and adapt to their positions in life.

Director: Jim Henson    More Info
Starring: Jim Henson, Diana Rigg, Charles Grodin, John Cleese, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, Jack Warden, Frank Oz, Peter Falk, Dave Goelz

 Clever gags highlight Jim Henson's "Muppet" movie as Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy foil a group of jewel thieves. One would have expected more.

Director: Fritz Freleng    More Info
Starring: Mel Blanc

 Fifty years of cartoons are compiled in this classic Warner Bros. feature film. Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Tweety Bird highlight the presentation.

Director: Robert Day    More Info
Starring: Eddie Albert, Tracey Gold, Andy Freeman, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., J.D. Cannon, Noah Beery Jr., Stephanie Blackmore, Peter Hobbs, James Luisi, William Bassett

 In this third installment of the "Witch Mountain" movies, those alien kids Tia and Tony (Tracey Gold and Andy Freeman) are on Earth helping their Uncle Ben (Noah Beery Jr.) search for his grandson, Gregory (Eric Aved). Their old friend Jason (Eddie Albert) once again comes to their aid, but then Jason is kidnapped by their nemesis from the past, billionaire Aristotle (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), who wants to use Tia and Tony's telepathic powers to control the world. Tia and Tony rescue Jason, and, together, they race to find Gregory with Aristotle in hot pursuit.

Director: Fritz Freleng    More Info
Starring: Mel Blanc

 Bugs, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck cartoons are compiled in this feature-length film providing good cartoon fun.

Director: Jim Henson    More Info
Starring: Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Steve Whitmire, Louise Gold, Brian Muehl, Bob Payne, Dave Goelz, John Baddeley, Mike Quinn

 Jim Henson creates a world where evil Skeksis rule. Gelflings can reclaim their lost world from the Skeksis by replacing a shard, which has been taken from the Dark Crystal. Henson shows his dark side in this clever film about good and evil.

Director: Steven Spielberg    More Info
Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, K.C. Martel, Sean Frye, C. Thomas Howell, Erika Eleniak, David M. O'Dell

 One of the great films of all time, the story is about a lost alien on Earth who befriends a family that is also a little lost. The film garnered four Academy Awards (Best Music, Sound, Sound Effects, and Visual Effects) and was nominated for five others, including Best Picture and Director.

Director: Ingmar Bergman    More Info
Starring: Ewa Froling, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Gunn Wallgren, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Borje Ahlstedt, Christina Schollin, Allan Edwall

 Oscar (Allan Edwall)and Emilie (Ewa Froling) are successful entertainers, until Oscar dies leaving widowed Emilie to raise their two children, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve). Emilie remarries, and she and the children move into the austere home of her new husband, Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). Lacking the comforts that Fanny and Alexander had known, the children are very unhappy–until their grandmother (Gunn Wallgren) takes them into her home and showers them with affection. Now, at last, the children find refuge. This film won four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Film. Ingmar Bergman was also nominated for Best Director.

Director: Jules Bass    More Info
Starring: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Rene Auberjonois, Robert Klein

 This animated story is set in the Robin Hood era. It tells the story of a unicorn (voice of Mia Farrow) looking for the rest of the unicorns and her adventures along the way.

Director: Don Bluth    More Info
Starring: Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Peter Strauss, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, John Carradine, Arthur Malet, Paul Shenar, Aldo Ray, Wil Wheaton

 This feature-length animated film tells a delightful story about a mouse, Mrs. Brisby (voice of Elizabeth Hartman), who goes out to look for a way to save her home and children from a farmer who is preparing to plow his field. With help from a crow, Jeremy (voice of Dom DeLuise), Mrs. Brisby discovers the secret society of NIMH. They are lab rats who have escaped from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) laboratory, and they just might have the solution to Mrs. Brisby's dilemma.

Director: Steven Lisberger    More Info
Starring: Jeff Bridges, David Warner, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor, Peter Jurasik, Tony Stephano, Craig Chudy

 A computer genius (Jeff Bridges) finds that his computer games have been stolen by a computer corporation executive (David Warner). In order to incriminate the villain, Bridges must find actual evidence. The fight is on inside the computer with awesome special effects. Unfortunately, the rest is so-so in this Disney production.

Director: Kirk Browning    More Info
Starring: Kate Burton, Richard Burton, Colleen Dewhurst, Donald O'Connor, Geoffrey Holder, Austin Pendleton, Maureen Stapleton, Zeljko Ivanek, Nathan Lane, Fritz Weaver

 The Broadway revival production was staged for the TV cameras in this telling of the classic story. Highlight: well-known cast.

Director: Robert Dalva    More Info
Starring: Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode, Teri Garr, Jodi Thelen, Ferdy Mayne, Doghmi Larbi, Angelo Infanti, Franco Citti

 In this sequel to "The Black Stallion" (1979), Alec Ramsey (Kelly Reno) is now a teenager, and his beloved, black stallion is stolen by Moroccan thieves who plan to race the horse in Africa. Alec becomes a good, young hero when he stows away on a plane to Casablanca and then roams the Sahara Desert in search of his stolen horse.

Director: Bob Clark    More Info
Starring: Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz, R.D. Robb, Leslie Carlson, Zack Ward, Tedde Moore, Yano Anaya

 Nine-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants a Red Ryder BB-gun for Christmas more than anything else, but he encounters all sorts of opposition to the idea, especially from his mother (Melinda Dillon). A warm, hilarious, nostalgic film, in particular for anyone who had grown up in the Midwest during the 1940's. Narrated by Jean Shepard who also wrote the novel on which it was based.

Director: Frank Zuniga    More Info
Starring: Steve Railsback, Penelope Milford, Michael Beck, Torquil Campbell, Sandra Seacat, Seth Sakai, Richard Narita, Tom Heaton

 Set on an Aleutian island, this is the story of Eric (Torquil Campbell) who tries to protect an endangered golden seal.