Lexi Randall

Vietnam War vet Costner must deal with a war of a different sort between his son and their friends, and a rival group of children. He also must deal with his own personal and employment problems that have resulted from his Vietnam experiences. (imdb)

Mary Steenburgen narrates this quiet but powerful film from the point of view of a young white girl recollecting the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Whoopi Goldberg plays Odessa Carter, a maid working in the house of Miriam Thompson, played by Sissy Spacek. With the start of a secret car-pool, threats from the white establishment, including Spacek's husband Norman (played by Dwight Schultz), threaten these two woman during a most tumultuous time in American history.

Jacob, a widowed farmer with two small children, places an ad in a paper for a new wife. The ad is answered by a spinster in Maine, who writes letters to them and describes herself as "plain and tall." She takes a trip to Jacob's farm to see if she can make a difference. (imdb)

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm. (imdb)

This follow-up to the acclaimed made-for-TV movies Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark finds Sarah (Glenn Close) and her husband Jacob (Christopher Walken) dealing with the trials of life on their Kansas farm in 1918. Jacob must contend with the unexpected arrival of John (Jack Palance), his father, who left him and his mother behind many years ago, while Sarah is worried about her eldest daughter Anna (Lexi Randall), who has left home to help treat the victims of the influenza epidemic. (allmovie.com)

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost? (imdb)

A fact-based TV film starring Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a woman struggling with manic-depression while raising her five children. (en.wikipedia.org)