Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (1988) TV Movie

This is the true story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer (Michael Nouri). At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation. Then in 1977, Charlie is diagnosed as suffering from ALS, a degenerative neurological ailment better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Given only one year to live, Charlie determines to continue leading his Los Gatos Wildcats to a state championship -- which he eventually does, despite losing all powers of speech and movement. Several notches above the usual "disease of the week" TV movie, Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story was directed by ROY CAMPANELLA II -- himself the son of a physically disabled pro athlete, baseball star Roy Campanella. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (1988) TV Movie

Cast: Pam Dawber, Michael Nouri, Bess Meyer, Peter Berg, James Handy, Dan Lauria, Reginald VelJohnson, Noble Willingham, Stephen Dorff, Betty Carvalho, Amelia Burnette, Kyle Chandler

Stoning in Fulham County, A (1988) TV Movie

When the baby daughter of an Amish couple is killed by a gang of rock-throwing teenagers, their anguish is virtually laughed off by the rest of the locals.

A Stoning in Fulham County (1988) TV Movie

Cast: Bill Allen, Brad Pitt, Debby Severs, Gregg Henry, Jill Eikenberry, Ken Olin, Noble Willingham, Ron Perlman, Theodore Bikel

Unconquered (1989) TV Movie

The story of the Richmond Flowers family, Martin Luther King Jr., and segregation in the south.

Unconquered (1989) TV Movie

Cast: Bob Gunton, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Whaley, Jenny Robertson, Larry Riley, Noble Willingham, Peter Coyote, Tess Harper