Rooftops (1989)

Starring:

• Jason Gedrick
• Troy Byer
• Eddie Velez
• Tisha Campbell-Martin
• Alexis Cruz
• Allen Payne
• Steve Love
• Rafael Báez
• Jamie Tirelli
• Luis Guzmán
• Millie Tirelli
• Robert LaSardo

Storyline
This is the story of a young man named T, a misunderstood loner who has escaped the heartless streets of New York's Lower East Side to make a life for himself on the rooftops of banded tenement buildings. T and the other homeless kids live by their wits at an empty lot they call the Garden of Eden. In his rock n' roll paradise, T encounters the alluring Elana. They are immediately attracted to each other, and their passion soon grows into an explosive love affair. Unexpectedly, T discovers that Elana is connected with a ruthless street gang of killers. When he confronts her with the truth, T is suddenly caught up in a deadly, heart-pounding struggle.

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.