I quite enjoy a good tv movie.My favourites are She Fought Alone with Tiffani Thiessen and Brian Austin Green,and A killer among friends,also starring Tiffani Thiessen.
Just wondering what tv movies everyone has seen,and enjoyed or hated?

The remake of Gypsy with Bette Midler was a TV Movie.

I thought The Man with 3 Wives was good.

Some of The Stepford Wives sequels are ok too- entertaining for TV movies.



TV Movie I hated- the remake of 'The Odd Couple' with Peter Falk, Woody Allen and Sarah Jessica Parker was horrible.

Anything with Bonnie Bedelia, Marcia Cross, or Judith Light.

Dreamer of Oz w/ John Ritter, little corny but quote cute
Mrs. Santa Claus w/ Angela Landsbury, so corny but a really sweet christmas movie

I think the Sabrina movies (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Sabrina Goes To Rome, Sabrina Down Under) are entertaining

"Roswell" which I saw aired on CTV a few years ago was pretty good. It's based on the 1947 crash in New Mexico.

"Anne Frank: The Whole Story"- which premiered on ABC in 2001, and starred Hannah Taylor Gordon and Ben Kingsley.

Originally posted by Desperate_Fan03
Anything with Bonnie Bedelia.


I agree. She's done some really great TV movies.

I forgot to mention Unwed Father with Brian Austin Green and Nicholle Tom (Maggie on the Nanny)
That was a real great movie.

There are several really, really good ones out there. Off the top of my head:

Rasputin
It
Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein, any of the 3 versions)
Emma
Mansfield Park (better than the remake, by far)
Gulliver's Travels
Me and My Shadows: The Judy Garland Story
The Hunchback
Sunday in the Park With George
Mrs. Santa Claus
Into the Woods
Joseph

And don't forget the miniseries :)

The Thorn Birds
Pride and Prejudice
The Buccaneers
Vanity Fair

And of course there are the crummy ones:

The Music Man
Annie
Merlin
Prince Charming
The Shining
Carrie
Salem's Lot
Every Danielle Steel movie ever made (except the 2 that I own :blush: )

'A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story', with Meridith Baxter Birney. The true story of a woman who killed her husband and his new wife after he left her. Meridith was terrific.

'Small Sacrifices' with Farah Fawcett. True story of Diane Downs who shot her three children, killing one.

'The Burning Bed' with Farah Fawcett about spousal abuse.

'Helter Skelter'. True story of Charles Manson and his fellow nutjobs.

'Fatal Vision'. True story of Jeffrey MacDonald, Green Beret physician, who killed his pregnant wife and two young daughters.

'Something About Amelia' starring Ted Danson about incest and child molestation.

'Band of Brothers'. An HBO Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks production about Easy Company in WWII.

A Woman Scorned was a great movie! That woman was nuts.

I have to vote for "Duel"(1971?) which was Steven Spielberg's first film! It is great!

Also "The Legend Of Lizzie Bordon" starring Elizabeth Montgomery


I also like any movie starring Patty Duke or Mare Winningham:D

Originally posted by Penny Lane
I have to vote for "Duel"(1971?) which was Steven Spielberg's first film! It is great!

I love that movie. Superb psychological thriller. Dennis Weaver was great in that role.

Originally posted by Desperate_Fan03
A Woman Scorned was a great movie! That woman was nuts.

I remember that movie now.It starred Alise from Family Ties.I thought it was a great movie.Meredith is a terrific actress-i was convinced that she was really psycho for a minute!

The only TV movies that I knew were TV movies was The Color Of Friendship and Tru Friendship or something like that (I dunno it had Shia Lebouf in it and it was some Disney Channel TV movie...)


Those were good!

btw, consentida, I like your avatar. :) :cool:

Originally posted by Janice
I love that movie. Superb psychological thriller. Dennis Weaver was great in that role.

Yes he was!:D

Originally posted by Janice
I love that movie. Superb psychological thriller. Dennis Weaver was great in that role.

Oh! That truck was SO scary!:eek:

Monster Truck!:eek:

One horrid TV movie was The Aileen Wuornos Story, with Jean Smart as Aileen. It was very tame, in comparison to 'Monster' (I saw Monster afterwards btw, they were showing loads of Aileen Wuornos things on this channel in the run up to Monster's release) and a lot of things were left out. There were a few good parts- but not many.

Angels in America was a great miniseries.

I agree with you Liza that Sunday in the Park with George was a brilliant TV-recording (I love Sondheim's work, haven't seen all of his work, I'm dying to get Into the Woods and Passion on DVD), but Cinderella with Brandy was horrible! I haven't seen the other versions of Cinderella, but Brandy was terrible in it- the only good thing was Bernadette Peters.

Originally posted by Caffeine King
btw, consentida, I like your avatar. :) :cool:


Thanks. :)

Originally posted by webuster
I agree with you Liza that Sunday in the Park with George was a brilliant TV-recording (I love Sondheim's work, haven't seen all of his work, I'm dying to get Into the Woods and Passion on DVD), but Cinderella with Brandy was horrible! I haven't seen the other versions of Cinderella, but Brandy was terrible in it- the only good thing was Bernadette Peters.

You should see the older two versions of Cinderella. The one with Julie Andrews is by far the best. The one with Lesley Ann Warren is - well, it takes awhile to get used to. It's kind of so-lame-it's-hilarious nowadays. I did like the Brandy version for two reasons: one was Bernadette, and two was the fact that the wonderful score was finally performed perfectly. Julie of course had the voice back in the 50s, but 50s television couldn't capture it all. No one in the 60s version was a very good singer, so that's what I liked about the 90s version. But Brandy and Whitney Houston were both really annoying in it. I tend to skip over their scenes ;)

I'm hopefully getting Into the Woods for Christmas this year. I totally love that show. I havent' seen Passion yet. Have you? Do you know who's in it? That's probably the one Sondheim show I know the least about.

Originally posted by webuster
Angels in America was a great miniseries.
I agree. I saw it when it first aired on HBO and just got it on DVD. It deserved every award it got.
Originally posted by Liza
I'm hopefully getting Into the Woods for Christmas this year. I totally love that show. I havent' seen Passion yet. Have you? Do you know who's in it? That's probably the one Sondheim show I know the least about.
I have a lot of Sondheim shows on LD and/or DVD -- Sunday in the Park with George; Sweeney Todd; Into the Woods; Passion; Follies in Concert; Putting it Together; Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall -- and while I wouldn't call Passion one of his best works, it's worth having just for the performance by Donna Murphy as Fosca. She's amazing. I will forever be impressed with the power and emotion she brought to the role, but specifically with a song called I Wish I Could Forget You, which Fosca sings while lying down. It's hard enough to get that kind of power while standing up -- I don't know how she did it.

I don't really consider any of these to be TV movies, even though they were produced for TV. When I hear "TV Movie" I think of original stories that are written and produced for network television. They usually play as though the writers were aware of the necessary commercial breaks, and they're rarely any good. The ones that Janice mentioned are good examples of the exceptions to that rule. I can't think of any others.

Of Sondheim's work, I've seen West Side Story, Gypsy, and Sunday in the Park with George. All three were brilliant, and I've heard a lot of Sondheim's other songs (Send in the Clowns, Ladies who Lunch etc)- and they're all really great songs. After hearing Bernadette Peters sing more of his songs on Inside the Actors Studio, I've been dying to see his other plays! I saw a trailer for Into the Woods on my Sunday in the Park with George video and it looks great, so does Sweeney Todd.

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Oh! That truck was SO scary!:eek:
Marlene, I'm watching this movie now. It's on TCM. I think that's Turner Classic Movies.

It's the end. Weaver just crashed the monster, and he's crying.

This movie is the classic example of a psychological thriller.

Most TV movies are rightly looked down upon, and that's because the great majority of them are simply crap. But a couple low budget ones come to mind, which both stars actors who are best known for their TV performances, proving once again, certain TV actors can really act.

The first one is Steven Spielberg's Duel ('71)(TV) starring Dennis Weaver (police drama McCloud) as a travelling salesman being terrorized on a lonely highway by some unknown psycho driving a gas tanker. It's worth noting Duel was released as feature film in Europe. It's a great road rage story.

The second one is based on the true story of one of the bloodiest shootouts in FBI history. In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders ('88)(TV) surprisingly stars Michael Gross (sitcom Family Ties) and David Soul (police drama Starsky & Hutch) as a couple of brutal bank robbers raising hell in Florida 1985.

Anything from Lifetime, and any miniseries from the early 80s (the ones based on trashy paperback romance novels)...

Sybil starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward was excellent! Both actresses made outstanding performances! It was heart-wrenching!

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Sybil starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward was excellent! Both actresses made outstanding performances! It was heart-wrenching! That was an excellent one. I'd forgotten that it had been made for TV.

I just remembered another good one: Playing for Time. I think it was made around 1980 or '81 and starred Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander.

Originally posted by Pentimento
That was an excellent one. I'd forgotten that it had been made for TV.

I just remembered another good one: Playing for Time. I think it was made around 1980 or '81 and starred Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander.

Yeah! I remember that one! It was very very good!

I love a good TV movie.The best ones i have seen so far are Unwed Father and She Fought Alone (i love Brian Austin Green) Obsessed with Shannon Doherty,A Killer Among Friends,No one would tell with Fred Savage and Candace Cameron,If someone had known,the burning bed (Farrah Fawcett was amazing),Painful secrets,and the Killing Secret with Soleil Moon Frye.

Originally posted by Pretty Woman
I love a good TV movie.The best ones i have seen so far are Unwed Father and She Fought Alone (i love Brian Austin Green) Obsessed with Shannon Doherty,A Killer Among Friends,No one would tell with Fred Savage and Candace Cameron,If someone had known,the burning bed (Farrah Fawcett was amazing),Painful secrets,and the Killing Secret with Soleil Moon Frye.

Great Movies! I've seen most of them and I like them a lot.

Originally posted by Desperate_Fan03
Great Movies! I've seen most of them and I like them a lot.

You've got great taste then!:D

Nancy McKeon's movies are awesome

Nancy McKeon's movies are awesome
Yeah her movies are great too! The Tracey Thurman story was great.