The best Janet MacLachlan’s drama movies
Today we present the best Janet MacLachlan’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Janet MacLachlan’s movies.
Sounder
7.5/10
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
There Goes My Baby
6.3/10
It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
Uptight
7.3/10
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Dark Victory
6.7/10
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
My Last Love
6.6/10
Love and life can never be planned. That's the message of the heartwarming love story of Susan Morton (Nancy Travis), a single mother facing a terminal illness who finds unexpected romance and a larger life lesson at a most difficult time. Susan moves to California with her daughter (Jamie Renee Smith) after being diagnosed with cancer. Enter young lover Michael Blake (Scott Bairstow), who teaches Susan that all of life is a precious gift.
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
6.4/10
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
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6.7/10
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Thursday's Child
6.4/10
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
6.4/10
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
Change of Mind
6.2/10
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
5.6/10
1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.
Darker Than Amber
6.2/10
Rod Taylor plays John D. MacDonald's famous Florida PI Travis McGee. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
7.2/10
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
Halls of Anger
5.9/10
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
A Private Affair
7.1/10
A woman who has confronted the sour side of success finds love and discovers herself in this made-for-TV drama. Nikka (Vanessa Bell Calloway) is a writer who enjoys unexpected success with her first novel, but her brush with fame and fortune has a serious downside when she's threatened with legal action by the Internal Revenue Service for non-payment of taxes. Turning to her family and friends for help, Nikka's new life begins to fall apart, but she begins to develop a greater sense of herself in the process, and she decides to take a trip to Africa in hopes of coming to terms with her heritage.
