Favorite "Made for TV" Movie

Tour2ma
Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
edited May 2003 in Music & Movies
Thought it might be kind of a different thread. Cable changed the quality level so dramatically from the days of broadcast tripe like "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island". Some are now good enough to find their way into the theater after their cable run.

Two spring to mind here, both are HBO productions...

"Barbarians at the Gate" - James Garner plays F. Ross Johnson, former President of RJR Nabisco, who decides to buy the company. Often funny, fairly accurate account of the ensuing mayhem, it usually stops me dead in my tracks when channel surfing.

"Citizen X" - Stephen Rae gives a great performance as a forensic pathologist leading the investigation of a series of serial rape-murders that began in the pre-glasnost, former Soviet Union and continued into the beginning of the Gorbachev era. It’s a true story. Donald Sutherland co-starred as Rae’s superior and gathered a couple awards for his performance. Max von Sydow also appears. It’s seldom aired any more; I wish I’d taped it.
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  • thajones
    thajones Posts: 30
    edited May 2003
    "V the Final Battle"!!!!!!!!!

    Okay, it wasn't the best movie ever made, but I was captivated when it came on for the first time, and still pause and watch at least part of it if it comes on satellite.
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited May 2003
    Roots was pretty riviting.
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  • kberg
    kberg Posts: 974
    edited May 2003
    Band of Brothers via HBO. But if we're talking pure (non-pay) TV, my vote is for Rich Man, Poor Man.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited May 2003
    The original pilot movie of "Battlestar Galactica" was one of my favorites.

    Have to agree on "Roots" and the "V" series. I remember my parents always freaked over "Thornbirds".


    FYI, the Battlestar Galactica series is being released on DVD in November and there will be a new series on Sci-fi channel this fall.
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  • jeff biggs
    jeff biggs Posts: 18
    edited May 2003
    I have to second avalanchefan, Roots still holds up.
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  • jdavy
    jdavy Posts: 380
    edited May 2003
    The HBO classic "And The Band Played On"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited May 2003
    Another good HBO, true story choice, jd.

    The ego of the character Alan Alda played was beyond belief...
    More later,
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    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited May 2003
    The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
    Salem's Lot
    Frank Herbert's "Dune"
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