Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Avery Brooks
• Kate Burton
• Bruce Dern
• Paula Kelly
• Phylicia Rashad
• Kathryn Walker
• Edward Woodward
• George Coe
• Frank Converse
• Albert Hall
• Jenny Lewis
• Troy Byer
• Shirley Jo Finney
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Endyia Kinney
• Carla Sutton

Storyline
This adaptation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel follows the adventures of a group of slaves in the 19th-century American South. When Eliza (Phylicia Rashad) hears that she and her son will be separated despite a promise to the contrary, she flees the plantation on which she's a slave, leaving behind her friend Tom (Avery Brooks). The story splits, following Tom as he clings to faith in the face of immense cruelty, while Eliza and her son try to survive and remain together despite the odds.

Jimmy the Kid (1982)

Starring:

• Gary Coleman
• Paul Le Mat
• Ruth Gordon
• Dee Wallace
• Cleavon Little
• Fay Hauser
• Pat Morita
• Avery Schreiber
• Walter Olkewicz
• Don Adams

Storyline

Gary Coleman is a lovably funny "KID" like no other in the screenplay based on the best-selling novel by Donald E. Westlake. Gary, who plays Jimmy Lovejoy, becomes the unlikely target for an improbable gang of would-be crooks on a cray, "fool-proof" crime caper. The gang tries to follow the plot of a book about the crooks that "got away with it." However, those crooks in their book did not include such wacky and unlikely characters.