# Favorite Made for TV Movies?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 9, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-made-for-tv-movies/492532 "2009-04-09T17:31:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-made-for-tv-movies/492532/101 "2009-04-16T12:35:39Z")

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> [@FallenAngel](#):
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> One of the few I remember was The Pride of Jesse Hallam. Johnny Cash played an illiterate Kentucky coal miner who moved to Cincinnati with his kids. Of course he decided to better himself and learn to read with the help of Brenda Vaccaro.
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> It was standard 1981 inspirational schlock from a story standpoint, but up until then I only knew Cash as a singer and was very impressed and moved by his performance. The movie was what turned me from a kid who kind of liked Cash’s music into an actual fan.

I liked that one as well. John also did some decent westerns.

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**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-made-for-tv-movies/492532/102 "2009-04-16T13:25:35Z")

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I can’t believe I almost forgot about [Lace](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087583/).

“Which one of you bitches is my mother?” :eek:😛

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