Kathleen Beller

When Harvard psychiatrist John Mack approached filmmaker Laurel Chiten asking her to make a movie about encounters with aliens, she thought he was crazy. But after meeting some of the so-called "experiencers" she was intruiged.

Touched -- With the spirit of his son haunting a loving father, Angela, the nurse who tended to him during his 2 years in a coma, comforts him and helps him confront his new life pointing him toward new possibilities and showing him that there is a journey of hope and love in the future.

After a terrible car accident, a loving father, Scott awakens to find his life completely changed. As he struggles to cope with the loss of his son as well as a missing two years in a coma, he realizes that he is losing his sense of “touch.” Quite literally he can no longer feel as he battles a pain in his soul, deeper than anything that happened to his body. Angela, the nurse who tended to him during his 2 years in a coma now becomes the woman who can keep him grounded. With the spirit of his son haunting him, Angela comforts him and helps him confront his new life pointing him toward new possibilities and showing him that there is a journey of hope and love in the future. One of the most moving and inspirational films you will see this year.

A prestigious cast headed by Academy Award-winners Sir Laurence Olivier ("Rebecca," "Hamlet"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Batman Forever," "The Client"), Robert Duvall ("A Civil Action," "Falling Down") and Jane Alexander ("All the President's Men," "Kramer vs. Kramer") bring to the screen the larger-than-life actions and emotions of Harold Robbins' ("The Carpetbaggers") best selling novel. Olivier is a Detroit auto mogul and the patriarch of a multi-generational family, who are wheeling and dealing in both business and at home. "The Betsy," a car named after his great-granddaughter, is an auto so perfect that it threatens the other auto companies. Co-starring Oscar-nominee Katharine Ross ("The Graduate," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), Lesley-Anne Down ("North & South"), Edward Hermann ("The Lost Boys"), Kathleen Beller ("Dynasty") and Whitney Blake ("Hazel").

This offbeat, upbeat romance stars Robert Hays as Daniel, a patient in a mental institution who concludes that there's really nothing wrong with him, and sets out to prove it by escaping and finding work at a carnival. Soon, his girlfriend from the institution (Kathleen Beller) decides to follow his example and join him in the "real world." Against all odds, the two misfits begin to fashion a new, shared and almost ordinary life.

Scott Davis (Randall Batinkoff) awakens from a coma, only to learn that his son was killed in a tragic accident, and that he's lost his sense of touch. As Davis struggles to repair his life, he makes a connection with his nurse (Jenna Elfman), who carries emotional baggage of her own. But while the two yearn to move forward, Davis simply cannot let go of his past. Bruce Davison and Samantha Mathis also star in this made-for-television tearjerker.

With the spirit of his son haunting a loving father, Angela, the nurse who tended to him during his 2 years in a coma, comforts him and helps him confront his new life pointing him toward new possibilities and showing him that there is a journey of hope and love in the future.

With the spirit of his son haunting a loving father, Angela, the nurse who tended to him during his 2 years in a coma, comforts him and helps him confront his new life pointing him toward new possibilities and showing him that there is a journey of hope and love in the future.

After a terrible car accident, a man awakens from a coma two years later and is faced with the loss of his son and his diminishing sense of touch. The nurse who tended to him now becomes the woman who can keep him grounded.

Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Marsha Mason) hides behind a hard shell of professional detatchment - until she treats Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller), a dying 17-year-old cancer patient who reawakens Kendall to life's possibilities. Soon the courageous girl's condition takes a downturn - and the physician must carefully, even agonizingly, weigh the consequences of keeping a promise she made to Buffy. Jerome Hellman, producer of such award-winning movies as Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home and The Mosquito Coast, makes his directorial debut on this frank, finely crafted film casting an unflinching yet compassionate eye on illness. Full of memorable performances, Promises in the Dark moves, challenges - and inspires you to live life more fully.

Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Mason) hides behind a hard shell of professional detatchment - until she treats Buffy Koenig (Beller), a dying 17-year-old cancer patient who reawakens Kendall to life's possibilities. Soon the courageous girl's condition takes a downturn - and the physician must carefully, even agonizingly, weigh the consequences of keeping a promise she made to Buffy.

A prestigious cast headed by Sir Laurence Olivier (as a Detroit auto mogul), Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall and Jane Alexander bring to the screen Harold Robbins' sudsy best selling novel.