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Once in a Life Time (1988)
The best filmed version!
If you can get your hands on this tv production, jump at it. It has a fabulous cast, the dialogue is snappy, and there are a lot of laughs.
I have a hard time singling out any cast members, but my favorite scenes were between Edward Petherbridge and Shiela Gish, as the screenwriter and the secretary who leaves him in the waiting room for the length of the story.
Time at the Top (1999)
Borrows slightly from a wonderful novel
Anyone who loved the two classic novels by Edward Ormondroyd will be disappointed in this film. All the magic and romance have been modernized out of his original story of a girl who does a good deed for a mysterious old lady, and given "three" in return. Three what? Not three wishes, but three rides into the 1800's on a rickety elevator...
The first novel is Time at the Top. The second is All in Good Time.
Dick (1999)
Great! Twits bring down government
Wonderful silliness! Two young girls accidently see a historic event, and they way they handle it helps to bring down Nixon's administration. The movie is set up like Forrest Gump; the characters' actions affect history, but with none of that movie's sadness. Truly inspired version of events. It will make you want to re-watch All the King's Men.
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
G-rating misleading
I enjoyed the movie, but the G rating might not be appropriate. There are some dark moments in the film; animals going hungry, and a dog having a "near-death" experience.