Movies: Doris Roberts

Vera Jenkins is a beautiful ex-model, who at the height of her fame, met with tragedy that locked her into seclusion for seventeen years. Now she must face the modeling world again when her daughter decides to follow in her footsteps. Vera tries to p...

The life of a young man growing up in a small town in the mountains of North Carolina during the early part of the 20th century, based on Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel of the same name....

Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in "Yiddish," a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in "The Detective," a married couple who have grown apart come together again as they pursue a thie...

The overall title for five short sketches by Neil Simon. 1: "The Greasy Diner." The story of a couple who enter a diner, take one look around, then wish they had never entered. 2: "The Man Who Got a Ticket." The story of a driver who is issued 369 su...

1986 NBC Saturday Morning preview special....

A troubled teenager walks into a grocery store carrying assault rifles killing many people. An investigation is held to answer questions as to why the teenager did this? How did a minor teenager get his hands on all those assault weapons?...

A firefighter falls in love with a woman after he rescues her from a car crash....

After Eloise s tutor Philip quits, nanny enrolls her in the prestigious Hawthorne academy. Eloise can t wait to being real school, but soon finds out it isn t exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teacher...

Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965....

A subtle, down-to-earth and autobiographical depiction of an American screenwriter in Paris who befriends his chauffeur and has an affair with a British aristocrat....

A sixties psychedelic counterculture clash occurs during the "Summer of Love" when an aspiring hippie from New York dupes the son of a Swedish dairy farmer into smuggling illegal margarine into butter-rich Wisconsin...

The plot centers around Miranda, a young girl who lost her mother at a very young age. She is troubled and withdrawn, pretend plays alone for hours and is obsessed with death. She creates elaborate little cemeteries using figs and sticks, burying dea...

A lonely and restless widow plays host to a much younger man she met on the internet....