This is my page of TV movies. I will try to supply the original airing date, whenever possible. Just in case you don't notice, it's very hard for me to give low ratings to movies, so some are very close.
Empty Cradle Original airing: 1993, ABC Reruns on Lifetime
Empty Cradle is the story of a nurse (Kate Jackson) desperate to hang onto her lover who's planning to leave her. She fakes her pregnancy and, nine months later, steals a newborn baby from a mother, Jane (Lori Loughlin, Full House). Jane is told she had a still birth, since no one can verify her baby was alive when she came because of the business of the hospital. She spends the next months trying to figure out what happened to her baby, despite the critisms of her friends and family.
Krolik TV Movie Rating: 3.7 stars.
Amazing Grace Reruns as Nightmare in Colombia County Original airing: 1992, ABC. Reruns on Lifetime
Amazing Grace is about the disappearence of a seventeen year old girl, Sherry. Sherry's sister, Dawn, and her family, along with the entire area, do all they can to find her. The kidnapper develops a crush on Dawn, from watching her on TV and talking to her on the phone, causing her to live in fear. The family has to do all they can to live with their grief and try to prevent another situation from ocurring. Krolik TV Movie Rating: 3.5 stars.
A Match Made in Heaven Original airing: May, 1996, ABC Reruns on Lifetime
A Match Made in Heaven stars Olympia Ducakis (Picture Perfect, Look Who's Talking) as an overbearing mother trying to set up her son (John Stamos, Full House) with her cancer nurse. Things get off to a shaky start, but soon run smoothly. However, a fight occurs and the two break up. The mother does all she can to get the two back together, but it doen't seem like there's anything that can bring them together again. Or is there? Krolik TV Movie Rating: 3.8 stars
The Perfect Body Original Airing: September 1997, NBC Reruns: Not for a while
The Perfect Body is about a gymnast (Amy Jo Johnson, The Power Rangers) who develops an eating disorder. Andie becomes obsessed with losing weight when she begins training with a new coach, who's preparing her for the Olympic Trials. Her first day there, he embarresses her about her weight, even though it is normal. As she gets iller and iller she slips away from her family and friends. She has to do all she can to be Number One wihout eating. And be prepared to face the consequences. Krolik TV Movie Rating: 3.9 stars.
Two Came Back Original airing: September 25, 1997, ABC Reruns: Not for a long time.
Two Came Back is about five teenagers (actually early twenties) sailing a boat to Vancouver from San Diego. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong. Tension ensues on board when Jason (Jonathan Brandis, SeaQuest) and Matt (John Glenn) are interested in the same girl, Susan (Melissa Joan Hart, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch). The captain, Rick, cuts as many corners as possible, nearly causing the boat to crash. Then a storm comes and the crew must abandon ship. They must survive on one raft with no food, water, or emergancy supplies and pray that help comes...... before it's too late. Krolik TV Movie Rating: 4 stars.
Rodger's and Hamerstien's Cinderella
Original Airing: November 2, 1997, ABC
Reruns on Disney
This adaptation of the classical Cinderella story was first intoduced in 1957, starring Julie Andrews. This new version stars Brandy (Cinderella), Whitney Houston (Fairy Godmother), Bernedette Peters (Wicked Stepmother), Jason Alexander (Lionell), Whoopi Goldbreg (the Queen), Victor Garbel (the King), and introducing Pedro something-or-other as the Prince. This is a musical version and it is extradorinary. It was produced by Whitney Houston. This production was described as being "the most extraordinary musical to ever hit television." This feature is a Disney movie, which means you'll probably be able to catch it from time to time on the Disney Channel. Don't miss it.
Krolik TV Movie Rating: 3.95 stars.
Borrowed Hearts- A Holiday Romance Original airing: November 30, 1997, CBS Reruns on Lifetime
Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel) plays Kathleen Russell, a poor single mother. A neighber tells her daughter, Zoey, to listen for music when none is playing. That means an angel is in the room. Zoey makes a prayer that an angel will come and bring her father, who left six months earlier, back home. When Zoey runs into a house that looks exactly like her dollhouse, it turns out to be the home of Kathleen's boss, Sam. Sam wants to make a deal with a man who only deals with family men, Mr. DelCampo (Hector Elizondo), and he asks Kathleen and Zoey to play the role of his family. Kathleen agrees, because she needs the money that is offered to her. When Mr. DelCampo arrives, Zoey becomes convinced that he's an angel because she always hears the music when he's near. This is an awesome story that will bring your family together. It teaches a man how to love, a woman to trust again, and daughter to let go of her father. And then that nothing is more important than love.
Krolik TV Movie Rating: 3.97 stars.
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