Are the movies Polly and Polly: Coming Home the same movie?
Polly, a Disney TV movie released in 1989 and Polly: Coming Home, released in 1990, have the same casts and apparently the same plots. I’m just trying to figure out if the second was just released with a different title or if it’s a different movie altogether and the plot I was reading was incorrect. Thanks! No, they are separate movies. According to MSN at :http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/polly/?pkw=PI&vendor=Paid%20Inclusion&OCID=iSEMPI In Polly, The Cosby Show’s Keshia Knight Pulliam portrays the “Glad Girl” who brings along a bag of happiness and optimism when she visits her wealthy aunt one summer. Tranposing Porter’s all-white story to a middle-class black community in the Alabama of the 1950s (Celeste Holm is the only white costar) isn’t nearly as self-conscious or gimmicky as it seems on paper. Nor is any damage done to the original by adding musical numbers, especially when taking into consideration that the film was directed by renowned choreographer Debbie Allen (the sist
