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The Miracle Worker 1979 Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a half blind Yankee school

Power of the Air 2018 A Missionary from Africa comes to the United States and shares with a concerned Christian how he feels the church in America is being deceived and in great danger The Christian is very convicted by what he hears, makes a significant change in his life, and then sets forth a pla

Call Me Anna 1990 Actress Patty Duke portrays herself in this autobiographical film that details her long time struggle with mental illness

Family of Strangers 1993 While researching her family history for a much needed operation, Julie learns that she is in fact adopted She then goes on a search to find her real birth parents

Always Remember I Love You 1990 Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents They decide to tell him about this, even though they fear they might lose him Robert runs away to find his real parents He find

When the Vows Break 1995 Patty Duke stars as a woman who represents herself in court when she receives a derisory divorce settlement

Race Against Time The Search for Sarah 1996 The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter With no help from the police, Sarahs parents are forced to act on their own to find her They must battle the bureaucracy of the police department while they are searching all over town for clues to Sarahs

Something So Right 1982 Joey lives with his mother His father isnt around, he doesnt like school, he is bored and doesnt take orders from anyone In other words he is a real little scamp Being at ones wits end, his mother decides to look for a big brother sort of surrogate father for Joey At first th

Before and After 1979 An overweight housewife has to confront her weight problem when her husband leaves her because of it She has a happily married and overweight friend and an unhappily thin, engaged friend who is starving herself to fit into her grandmothers wedding gown The housewife diets and e

A Christmas Memory 1997 A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried Buddy brings life to the house and develops a close friendship with one of the older, simple

The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin in Brooklyn Heights (1999) The original cast members from the classic television series resurrect their characters, including Patty Duke in her legendary dual role as identical cousins Patty and Cathy Lane. This time the family reconvenes in New York in order to sur

The Patty Duke Show (19631966) Cathy Lane, teen-aged daughter of a globe-trotting journalist, comes to live at the home of her uncle, a newspaper editor in New York City. Curiously, Cathy is the spitting image of her uncle's daughter, Patty. Appearances aside, however, the urbane Cathy is nothing li

When He Didnt Come Home (1998) A mother (Patty Duke) goes to Chicago to try to find her son (Robert Floyd) who has suddenly quit contacting her and can't be reached.

Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006) Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.

A Killer Among Friends (1992) Beautiful and popular Jenny Monroe has everything, the looks, the popularity, and the perfect mom. One day, Jenny goes out with her friends to the park and doesn't come home. 3 days later, Jenny is found murdered face down in a lake. Her grieving mother Jean, whom had a

Billie (1965) Fifteen year old tomboy Billie Carol, the younger of two daughters of Harding mayoral candidate Howard G. Carol and his wife Agnes Carol, is naturally athletic. She attributes her speed to being able to hear what she calls "the beat": music she hears in her head, speeding up

Curse of the Black Widow (1977) Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons. He eventually tracks the killer's path to Los Angeles, where he discovers her true identity - a woman who was bitten b

My Sweet Charlie (1970) A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.

September Gun (1983) Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group of Apache orphans. Ben Sunday picks an ideal spot, right in the center of town--the local saloon and "bawdy house".

Me, Natalie (1969) Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at

A Matter of Justice (1993) A naive young soldier shocks his family when he returns home on leave accompanied by a worldly older woman whom he introduces as his wife. The young man's mother strongly disapproves of the relationship, and urges him to seek a divorce, but he is blinded by love. The marri

The Miracle Worker (1962) Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yan

Youll Like My Mother (1972) Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed in during a fierce blizard where she's forced to wait it out only to slowly uncover

Valley of the Dolls (1967) Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences wit

The Daydreamer (1966) A fictional account of a teen-aged Hans Christian Anderson. In this film, young Hans runs away from home and each time he falls asleep he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina and The Ugly Duckling

A pregnant Dr. Annie Watson is going to stay with her best friend, Dr. Belinda Owens while her husband Peter is off on a surveying job. Annie's mother-in-law Mary, a seen-it-all midwife ...

The demonic forces in the haunted Long Island house escape through a mystical lamp which finds its way to a remote California mansion where the evil manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father.