1969 1988  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernest Thompson
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Wynne, Keller Kuhn, Steve Foster, Mert Hatfield, Welton Tootle, Don Devendorf, Jason Summers, Scott N. Stevens, John Garber
The lives of college students Scott (Kiefer Sutherland) and Ralph (Robert Downey, Jr.) are affected by the Vietnam War. Scott's Marine Corps brother is killed in the war. Ralph is arrested for breaking into his draft office to steal his file in order to avoid being drafted. Meanwhile, Ralph's sister Beth (Winona Ryder) uses her valedictory speech to protest the war and then joins Scott to protest the war in this shallow look at the effects of war in 1969.
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The Last of the Belles 1974  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
Director: George Schaefer
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner, Susan Sarandon, David Huffman, Ernest Thompson, Richard Hatch, James Naughton, Leslie Williams, Albert Stratton, Alex Sheafe, Sasha von Scherler, Brooke Adams
Set in the early 1920s, this made-for-TV film is a semi-biographical account of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Richard Chamberlain) and wife-to-be Zelda (Blythe Danner) when he was in the army and stationed in Alabama. It also presents a dramatization of one of his short stories, "The Last of the Belles," about a soldier who meets a Southern girl.
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Take Me Home Again 1994  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Lies Boys Tell
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Craig T. Nelson, Bess Armstrong, Bonnie Bartlett, Richard Gilliland, Ernest Thompson, Nancy McLoughlin, Lee Garlington, Anne Haney, Jason Hervey, Eileen Brennan, Marley Shelton
Elderly Ed Reece (Kirk Douglas) wants to spend his final days in the town where he was born. He talks his son (Craig T. Nelson) into accompanying him on this, his final journey. Based on a novel ("The Lies Boys Tell") by Lamar Herrin.
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The West Side Waltz 1995 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernest Thompson
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Grey, Kathy Bates, Ernest Thompson, Robert Pastorelli, Richard Gilliland, August Schellenberg, Hal Williams, Estelle Harris
Based on Ernest Thompson's 1981 Broadway play, Thompson now directs this film with Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli in the Katharine Hepburn and Dorothy Loudon roles of aging Manhattan neighbors.
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| 1. 1969 (1988)
2. The Last of the Belles (1974)
aka: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
3. Take Me Home Again (1994)
aka: The Lies Boys Tell
4. The West Side Waltz (1995)
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