Jodi Thelen

This story of four working-class kids in a small industrial town--who go their separate ways after high school in the innocence of 1961 and come together again at the end of the turbulent Sixties--is as much about the coming of age of America as it is about the changes the characters go through. (imdb)

In Twilight Time (1982), Karl Malden plays Marko Sekulovic, a widowed immigrant who retires to his home country of Yugoslavia after twenty years in the United States. Back in his home town, he cares for his two young grandchildren, instilling in them a work ethic and pride in their homeland. (tcm.com)

A physician (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.