Richard Michaels
2021
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
Richard Michaels
Mario Van Peebles, Susan Ruttan
Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on Bell's relationship with a father-less handicapped boy, and his efforts to be a big brother to him. The boy ends up being an inspiration for Bell when his disease makes the athlete more afflicted than the boy.
A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story
Homeward Bound
Richard Michaels
Moosie Drier, David Soul
The relationship among a divorced man, his incurably ill teenage son, and his long-estranged father is explored when the youngster joins his dad for one final summer vacation and they end up at the grandfather's vineyard where he reconciles the two older men.
Homeward Bound
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Richard Michaels
Clu Gulager, Blair Brown
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Miss America: Behind the Crown
Richard Michaels
Carolyn Sapp Daniels, Ray Bumatai
Carolyn Sapp, Miss America 1992 (and a non-actress), plays herself in this drama based on her personal story of abuse and betrayal at the hands of the man she loved, Nu'u Fa'aola, a Samoan pro-football player for the New York Jets.
Miss America: Behind the Crown
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
Richard Michaels
Suzanne Pleshette, Lloyd Bridges
Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
The Children Nobody Wanted
Richard Michaels
Fredric Lehne, Michelle Pfeiffer
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
The Children Nobody Wanted
The Plutonium Incident
Richard Michaels
Janet Margolin, Bo Hopkins
A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
The Plutonium Incident
