Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1985  TV, 105 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Cast: Patrick Day, Samm-Art Williams, Frederic Forrest, Lillian Gish, Barnard Hughes, Richard Kiley, Geraldine Page, Sada Thompson, Butterfly McQueen, Jim Dale, Ann Shropshire, Eugene Oakes, Jason Hankins, Bill Chamness, Hula Duke
This enjoyable remake of the Mark Twain classic is an American Playhouse production. Patrick Day and Samm-Art Williams give fine performances as Huck and the runaway slave Jim. Huck escapes from his brutal, alcoholic father Pap (Frederic Forrest) who had kidnapped him from the Widow Douglas' (Sada Thompson) home. As a means of escape, he joins Jim for the rafting trip down the Mississippi River, and they form a lasting bond. Along the way, they meet con-artists "the King (Barnard Hughes) and the Duke (Jim Dale) and reluctantly are drawn into their schemes.
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Ernest Goes to Camp 1987  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy
Director: John R. Cherry III
Cast: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, Lyle Alzado, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody, Gailard Sartain, Daniel Butler, Hakeem Abdul-Samad, Patrick Day, Scott Menville, Jacob Vargas, Danny Capri
Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) has been hired as a fix-it man at Camp Kikakee and is then appointed the job of counselor to a group of juvenile delinquents. The kids give him more than a few problems, but Ernest also has time to get involved in coming to the aid of an old Indian chief (Iron Eyes Cody) who is being pressured by Sherman Krader (John Vernon) to sell his land rights for the camp so that Krader can set up a strip-mining business.
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The Long Shot: Believe in Courage 2004  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
aka: The Long Shot
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Cast: Julie Benz, Paul Le Mat, Marsha Mason, Gage Golightly, David Alexander, Christopher Cousins, Laura Johnson, Juliette Goglia, John Livingston, Cliff Bemis, Robert Pine, Patrick Day
After her husband abandons her, Annie Garrett (Julie Benz), with seven-year-old daughter Taylor (Gage Golightly) in tow, relocates from Colorado to California in an attempt to rebuild her life. She moves onto Mary Lou's (Marsha Mason) ranch where she cares for and rides the horses. Courage to really turn her life around occurs when she sets out to earn a prize at the horse show–even though her horse is struck blind the day before the show.
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| 1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985)
2. Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
3. The Long Shot: Believe in Courage (2004)
aka: The Long Shot
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