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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)
I can't get enough of this story; there's more online!
In the city I lived in during the time L&C was on the air it just ran
for one year and then was replaced by something else. Imagine my surprise when TNT started running all four seasons! I started taping it -- an ongoing project -- and found the episodes weren't enough. So I did a SEARCH for "Lois & Clark" and found a wealth of websites devoted to the characters and the series. There are over 4000 stories of varied length -- some the length of novellas -- online. Many are PG- rated, many are PG-13, and some are restricted to those over 18 years of age. Many of the latter stories are also in the PG-13 category with the R-rated material excised. "So which authors of the L&C fanfic do you like the best, Donald?"
Let's put it this way: I've only read the stories of about twenty of the writers but I find I'm rereading those of Wendy Richards and Kathy Brown.
"Well put!" Thanks, Wendy. :-0
Restless Spirits (1999)
Another take on Bill Murray's "Groundhog Day."
Shown on Showtime as "Restless Spirits," this is a fine tale of a pair of aviators flying from France to Newfoundland trying to be the first to cross the Atlantic. They crash in an odd fog and every time that fog reappears they crash again with no memory of the previous crashes.
At the time of the story it is sixty years later and they don't know that Lindbergh won the prize for the first crossing and they don't know they are ghosts.
The protagonist is the 12-year-old Juliana Wimbles playing Katie who finds them and figures out both their problem and the solution while they help her come to terms with her father's death in a test plane crash and with her mother's new romance.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and expect to view it over and over just as I see such similar movies as "Groundhog Day," "Somewhere in Time," and "Time at the Top" over and over.
Contact (1997)
They have the astronomy details right!
As an astronomy teacher, writer, and planetarium director I find nothing in the film to criticize. The opening scene is wonderful. I watch it over and over. I loved the story, the background, the characters, and the actors!
Time at the Top (1999)
Love through time.
A fascinating look at the relationship of a single father in 1998 and a single mother in 1881, tied together by a time-traveling teenager. Reminded me of "Somewhere In Time," Richard Matheson's "Bid Time Return," as rendered by Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour.