Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?
Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?
The Jesse Owens Story (1984). Really good made for TV biopic. Won a primetime emmy. But has barely 300 total ratings on IMDB and so few on Letterboxd that it doesn’t have an average score. Several cast members from the Roots miniseries.
Meet the Raisins (1988). The original 30 minute made for TV claymation special. Here on YouTube (lots of music missing) It was a spinoff of a highly successful marketing campaign (a 30 second commercial where raisins sing ‘heard it through the grapevine’).
The music was the best part. Sadly rights to the music purchased/available only when it aired I suspect. Daria was later but has had a fan restoration project trying to let folks know what music went with the episodes originally.