A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

When their music teacher needs an expensive operation after being mugged, a group of precocious middle school students attempt to raise the money by selling fake military secrets to the KGB.

A television movie about a veteran policeman who accidentally kills a musician. The ghost of the musician returns to persuade the cop to steer the musician's grandson away from drug peddlers and into a life of music.

A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident.