The best Rue McClanahan’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Rue McClanahan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Rue McClanahan.
This World, Then the Fireworks
5.3/10
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.
Mother of the Bride
5.7/10
A mother's plans for her daughter's wedding are complicated when her ex-husband, who abandoned the family more than 20 years earlier, shows up.
Miracle Dogs
5.6/10
The family friendly animal movie Miracle Dogs concerns a boy who befriends a three-legged dog. Soon his relationship with the canine deepens to the point that the boy is attempting to find new homes for a variety of homeless animals.
Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
7.1/10
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated.
Generation Gap
6.5/10
When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.
The People Next Door
6.1/10
A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.
The Little Match Girl
6.9/10
Molly is an angel sent to earth as a little match girl: her mission, to save the fragmented Dutton family.
The Dreamer of Oz
7.1/10
The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz.
Message from Nam
6.2/10
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War.
Baby of the Bride
5.4/10
Soon after returning from their honeymoon, John and Margaret Hix receive the surprise of their life - at 53, Margaret is pregnant! Against her husband's wishes, Margaret decides to keep the baby... but she isn't the only one in the family who is expecting. Margaret's daughter, Mary, who has just left the convent, is due just a few months before her mother.
After the Shock
5.5/10
On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented here are some of the stories of the brave members of the public and emergency services who rescued people who were trapped in the rubble in houses or on the freeway.
Back to You & Me
6.6/10
After befriending a patient and then losing her to cancer, Dr. Sydney Ludwick decides to take some much needed time off to attend the 20th anniversary of her high school reunion and confront some deep seated resentments from the past.
A Holiday to Remember
6.1/10
Compassionate holiday romancer with Connie Sellecca as a divorced mother who takes young daughter Asia Vieira to her small South Carolina hometown in order to start a new life. Once there, Connie has trouble getting ready for Christmas as Randy Travis, her former boyfriend comes calling, and a runaway boy and social worker take up a lot of her and her daughter's attention. With Rue McClanahan, Don McManus. Based on Kathleen Creighton's "A Christmas Love.
Children of the Bride
6.1/10
A middle-aged woman tries to get married to her younger finance but is hindered by her four grown children who come bearing grudges.
Take My Daughters, Please
6.3/10
A woman with four single daughters sets out to try and get them married.
Some of My Best Friends Are...
5.9/10
It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin.
Picnic
6.8/10
A southern bell falls for a handsome drifter with no prospects, going against her parents' wishes to marry a rich businessman.
Angel's Flight
6/10
A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.
