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Two TV movies I've never been able to forget are the Mary White story (the newspaperman's daughter who gets thrown from a horse) and one about a teenage girl whose bus is hit by a train starring Stephanie Zimbalist. She has to learn to walk again, I think? Or loses her legs?
Okay, maybe that one could have left a more specific mark, but still.
The NYTimes article about Patricia Neal was unbelievable. She had a crazy life.
I can't watch these from work, so presented without comment: Deranged Inception mashup videos.
I love the Dora the Explorer one, but I haven't watched the others. If someone watches them all and recommends which are worth my two minutes, that someone would have time on their hands!
TV movie that stuck with me: Something for Joey. Left me and my sister blubbering messes.
By the way, Pete, this is the music playing in the last scene.
Okay, maybe that one could have left a more specific mark, but still.
Heh. This is so me. My freakish brain recalls the lyrics of 80% of the songs I've heard, but plot points in narratives? Eh, that's hit or miss.
TV movies that effected me:
Why Me? with Armand Assante and Glyniss O'Conner about an Army nurse who needs facial reconstruction after an accident. It was shocking because the doctor uses labial tissue to create her lips. In 1984, shocking!
Death Takes a Holiday with Monte Markham. Perhaps my first real actor crush.
And the winner for the, I should not admit this in public and I'm SO glad I've grown up award, is Sweet Hostage with Martin Sheen and Linda Blair. Given the state of my life at that time, my loving the movie makes sense but, oy. When I think about it now...ugh.
TV movies that stuck with me for whatever reason (none apparent):
The TV movie starring Richard Hatch as Jan Berry (from Jan & Dean), and his recovery from his head injury after his car accident.
And, of course, the after school special about the dangers of PCP, starring Helen Hunt, who goes screaming crazy from angel dust, and defenestrates herself out of a second story school window.
The TV movie starring Richard Hatch as Jan Berry (from Jan & Dean), and his recovery from his head injury after his car accident.
Deadman's Curve! I actually went and saw Jan & Dean playing at Milwaukee's Summerfest when I was in college because of this movie.
The TV movie that I think is one of the tops in the genre is The Missiles of October, which used to be rerun all the time. Great film!