Showing posts with label Doris Roberts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doris Roberts. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2014

A Thousand Men and a Baby (1997) TV Movie

A baby in a foreign land is adopted by the men on a U.S. Navy ship and brought to America.









A Thousand Men and a Baby (1997) TV Movie
Cast: Richard Thomas, Gerald McRaney, Jonathan Banks, Doris Roberts, Eve Gordon, Adrian Sparks

Friday, March 27, 2009

Time to Heal, A (1994) TV Movie

The carefully observed TV movie A Time To Heal tells the story of Jenny Barton (Knots Landing's Nicollette Sheridan), who suffers a stroke while giving birth to a baby. Paralyzed on her right side, she struggles to recover, and Cathleen Young's script doesn't spare us any of Barton's frustration and agony. Just as austerely absorbing are the problems of her husband, Jay (Gary Cole of Midnight Caller), a busy lawyer who before his wife's stroke had little time for home life but now finds himself raising their 6-year-old daughter (the wonderfully grave Mara Wilson from Mrs. Doubtfire) as well as the newborn. A Time to Heal is notably unsentimental and realistic for a TV-movie drama-tempers fray, people run out of patience, no one is particularly heroic-and both Sheridan and Cole are admirably restrained in what could have been florid roles. B - Reviewed by Ken Tucker on Apr 15, 1994

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A Time to Heal  (1994) TV Movie
Cast: Ben Masters, Doris Roberts, Gary Cole, Ken Jenkins, Lorraine Toussaint, Mara Wilson, Nicollette Sheridan, Tim Ransom, Trisha Simmons

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Letter to Three Wives, A (1985) TV Movie

"A Letter to Three Wives" is a modernized version of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name. While on a charity picnic, the wives of three well-to-do men each receive a letter from a fourth woman, a flashy divorcée named Addie (who is never seen). With calculated sweetness and sympathy, Addie informs the ladies that she is about to run off with the husband of one of them. In flashback, each wife recalls her marriage, wondering if it is she who is about to be divested of her husband (and simultaneously asking herself why this might be happening). Loni Anderson, Michele Lee, and Stephanie Zimbalist star in the roles played by Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, and Jeanne Crain (respectively) in the 1949 film. Ann Sothern herself is seen as the mother of Anderson's character, a part originally essayed by Connie Gilchrist. Johnny Mandel earned an Emmy nomination for his musical score, which is virtually the only real improvement on the 1949 version. "A Letter to Three Wives" first aired December 16, 1985, on NBC.

A Letter to Three Wives  (1985) TV Movie
Cast: Ann Sothern, Ben Gazzara, Doris Roberts, Karen Austin, Loni Anderson, Michael Gross, Michele Lee, Stephanie Zimbalist