The Air Up There 1994  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Charles Gitonga Maina, Yolanda Vazquez, Winston Ntshona, Sean McCann, Mabutho "Kid" Sithole, Dennis Patrick, Ilo Mutombo, Nigel Miguel, Eric Menyuk
In an attempt to recruit a new player for his basketball team, Jimmy Dolan (Kevin Bacon) travels to an African village and becomes involved in the local community.
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Choices 1981  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Cast: Paul Carafotes, Victor French, Val Avery, Lelia Goldoni, Dennis Patrick, Don Stark, Demi Moore, William R. Moses, Stephen Nichols, Pat Buttram
Good student John Carluccio (Paul Carafotes) also plays football for his high school. After he is diagnosed with partial deafness, he is told by the school that he can no longer play football. This alienates John and causes him to get in with the wrong crowd. That girlfriend of John's is Demi Moore in her first film, brief though it is.
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Joe 1970 R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Peter Boyle, Audrey Caire, K Callan, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott, Susan Sarandon, Reid Cruickshanks, Tim Lewis, Estelle Omens, Bob O'Connell, Marlene Warfield, Mary Case, Jenny Paine, Rudy Churney, Robert Emerick
After Melissa (Susan Sarandon, in her film debut) ends up in the hospital from a drug overdose, her business executive father Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick) is enraged and accidentally kills her junkie lover Frank (Patrick McDermott). Shaken by the murder, Bill heads into a bar and meets factory worker Joe (Peter Boyle) who shares Bill's prejudices about minorities and hippies of the 1960s' era. Bill tells Joe that he just killed a drug dealer, but Joe doubts Bill's assertion. Later, after watching news reports of the murder scene, Joe holds Bill in esteem. They form a friendship that will lead to a tragic confrontation with hippies–including Melissa.
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| 1. The Air Up There (1994)
2. Choices (1981)
3. Joe (1970)
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