Visions - Season 1 (1976)

Two brothers, one played by Judd Hirsh, has a troubled relationship with his on-screen brother D. Speilberg, who is a medical doctor, but suffers from schizophrenia. Hirsh tries to help his brother, but is helpless in the face of the disease. The brother has moments of clarity, and at one point in the story, saves a man's life on a highway after he's been in a serious auto accident. The mother is played convincingly, and this drama from the TV anthology series Visions is powerful and moving.

Originally broadcast by KCET (PBS) on their dramatic showcase series, "Visions," this sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of Amy, a proper, but lonely housewife whose husband is away at war. She finds solace in a friendship with a more worldly female photographer, only to have her entire world turned upside down when the friendship becomes genuine love and she is forced to choose. Groundbreaking for its powerful yet non-prurient portrayal of lesbian first love.

Luis Valdez appears as an old man, whose 'corrido' (ballad) introduces a play within the play: the seriocomic story of Jesus Rasquachi, an itinerant Mexican farm worker who struggles to maintain hope despite a series of menial jobs and exploitative bosses.