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Netflix

posted 12 years ago by jgiles-367-954534
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I'm not sure how many of you have Netflix, but I recently became a subscriber to it and I was pleasantly surprised to see so many tv movies available to watch on there.

So far I have watched the following tv movies on there:

The Burning Bed (1984)
The Ryan White Story (1989)
The Love She Sought aka The Green Journey (1990) with Angela Lansbury
Chance of A Lifetime (1991) with Betty White and Leslie Nielsen

Some of the others I have in my Instant Queue to watch include Someone I Touched (1975) with Cloris Leachman, Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983) with Dennis Weaver, A Matter of Sex (1984) with Jean Stapleton, and Mercy or Murder? (1987) with Robert Young.

What's great about Netflix is that most of these tv movies aren't available on DVD or VHS, but yet they are available to watch on there. I've enjoyed the ones I've seen so far.

[–] TVmovieViewer 12 years ago

Hi jgiles,
I don't have netflix but I had a friend who did last year, and she would record a lot of them to dvd for me. (She has since unsubscribed.) Out of the ones you've mentioned, the ones I've seen are The Ryan White Story, Chance of a Lifetime, and Someone I Touched. I'll read about the others.

...Some other rare ones that I watched on netflix at the time were:

1. Terraces (Julie Newmar is the neighbor and best friend of a gay man who's having an affair with a married man.)

2. Jealousy (Angie Dickinson stars in 3 half hour stories. The first 2 are good, the 3rd one is boring)

3. Goodbye, Supermom (Valerie Harper quits her job and moves her family to the suburbs. With Carol Kane)

4. Bridge to Silence (Lee Remick's deaf daughter- Marlee Matlin- has a car accident, and deals with her mother's inability to accept her as a deaf person)

5. ...And Your Name is Jonah (Sally Struthers struggles to raise her deaf son)

6. Intimate Strangers (Sally Struthers has an abusive husband)

7. Dancing at the Harvest Moon (Jacqueline Bisset, Valerie Harper, and Eric Mabius star. Susan Anspach has one scene as Eric's mom)

....None of these movies have been released on dvd. And only 3 of them were released on vhs (but the netflix versions are much better quality.)

[–] jgiles-367-954534 12 years ago

I forgot to mention Jealousy and Intimate Strangers as two that I have saved in my queue to watch. I'm looking forward to watching those and the others I have saved to my queue. I'll post about them on here when I watch them.

[–] TVmovieViewer 12 years ago

Great- I'll look forward to hearing what you think. =)

[–] Anniston 12 years ago

Nancy McKeon's Strange Voices is also on Netflix. So is One Last Harvest. Based on a true story and such a great movie.

Some others on my queue I have yet to watch include:
Silent Victim
Mistaken Identity
Broken Angel
Unspeakable Acts
Family Sins
Homeless
and
Extreme Close-Up

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[–] jgiles-367-954534 12 years ago

I have a few of those in my queue as well, Anniston. I watched Extreme Close-Up after reading a great old review of it on Entertainment Weekly's website. It was a very enjoyable movie.

[–] Anniston 12 years ago

Nice. I am getting rid of Netflix next week.

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