Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Don Cheadle
• James Earl Jones 
• Michael Beach 
• Loretta Devine 
• Glynn Turman 
• Monica Calhoun 
• Colin Cheadle 
• Michael Ralph 
• Daryl Mitchell 
• Nicole Ari Parker 
• Tamara Tunie

Storyline
Based on a true story-He is probably the greatest basketball player who never made it to the big time. But Earl Manigault is a living legend on the streets of New York. REBOUND is his story. Shooting hoops in the playgrounds of Harlem, young Earl, nicknamed "The Goat," discovers he has a special talent for he game, a high-speed, high-flying agility that soon makes him a champion slam-dunker. 

As a high school star he reaches the top by pitting himself against future greats like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but staying at the top proves harder. Seduced by his friends into an easy lifestyle of parties and drug abuse, earl soon finds himself slipping from the top-and his battles are just beginning. Confronted by a team that consists of harsher realities-a brutal coach, a pregnant girlfriend, and a drug habit that won't let go-"The Goat" is about to discover that it will take all his energy and talent if he is to break free and REBOUND.

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Starring:

• Sidney Poitier
• Dorothy Dandridge
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Pearl Bailey 
• Brock Peters 
• Diahann Carroll 
• Clarence Muse 
• Leslie Scott 
• Joel Fluellen

Storyline
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life - and the threatened return of Crown.