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Is this one of the most famous made-for-TV-movies of all time?


Pretty famous movie, considering it was originally just made-for-TV!!!















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If I may share what I remember as a kid when this came out:

It was a family movie...a neighborhood movie. Everyone I knew stopped to watch it. It was powerful, made stars aout of Cann and Williams to say the least, but these two actors played the nheck out of the roles.

As an adult I realized that this solidifed Barry Diller's place in history as the pioneer of creating movies made especially for TV that the TV viewer wanted to watch. In his tenure at ABC (and later, Paramount) he made some powerful flicks. This is one of his most famous.


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This was so famous in Chicago that is was actually the Christmas release at the long gone Michael Todd Theater in the loop and it actually played there for a few weeks. I would say this and "Duel" are probably the most famous made for television movies.

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"Something About Amelia" with Ted Danson and Glenn Close is another famous one.

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"Something For Joey" is another one as well.

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"Something For Joey" is another one as well.
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Isn't that a TVM from the late 70's with Hal Holbrook?

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No this was with Marc Singer and Geraldine Page and was a true story of football player John Cappalletti from Penn State and his relationship with his little brother who is dying of leukemia. This is a MUST see. Great movie that makes most people cry.

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Something for Joey is a great movie. The ending put me in tears, big time!













"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading". -Henny Youngmam

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Everyone keeps forgetting the most famious and honored made for Tv Movie...A little film called "ROOTS".

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It wasn't a movie it was a mini-series and years later it became tainted when it turned out that Alex Haley lied and just made things up in the book. When it was originally released it was claimed the Haley had researched his history going back to Africa, blah blah blah... but it turns out he hit some dead ends long before his search made it back to Africa so he just made up crap. After that the whole thing lost some shine and is now considered bullshit.

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Oh, I forgot what movie this was until you provided the description. Yeah, this was a classic.




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Another famous and controversial made for tv movies is "A Case of Rape" starring Elizabeth"Bewitched" Montgomery in 1974 I believe. I know she also made "Lizzie Borden" around the same time.

Linda "Exorcist" Blair made a couple tv movies that were very racy for prime time. Eve "Brady Bunch" Plumb did too. It seems that teen prostitutes and women in prison and sexual assaults made for must see television in the early to mid 1970's.

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Shut up!

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Old post, but I had to answer... when I think of famous TV movies, Brian's Song is the first one that pops into my head, followed by 'Duel' directed by a young Stefen Speilberg, then the others mentioned here... A Case Of Rape, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, both with Elizabeth Montgomery, Death Takes A Holiday, with Monte Markham, the first TV movie, Seven in Darkness, and the somewhat later Something About Amelia.

Check out Youtube; there's a whole bunch of them uploaded there!

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There was a film called “The Day After” about the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. It was supposedly so upsetting that local news was putting out warnings days in advance, schools were telling parents to prepare their children for it.

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