Joan Micklin Silver

Hunger Point (2003)

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama 

Length: 95min

Obsessed with the belief that a slender figure is the most important thing on earth, domineering mother Marsha Hunter (Barbara Hershey) forces her two daughters Frannie (Christina Hendricks) and Shelly (Susan May Pratt) to adhere to rigid diets and...

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In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl Elina Löwensohn Don McKellar   

Tags: War Drama War Drama Period Film 

Length: 96min

Rod Serling's sobering drama, originally shown on Playhouse 90, is re-made in this made-for-cable movie. The setting is the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, where Jews are either carted off to Nazi death camps or left to die in the disease-ridden squalor of the...

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Charms for the Easy Life (2002)

Cast: Gena Rowlands   

Tags: Period Film Drama Family Drama 

Length: 111min

Charlie Kate Birch (Gena Rowlands) is a peculiarly powerful Southern matriarch, an anachronism in the early 20th century. She's a self-educated woman who makes a good living as a midwife and holistic healer. One day, she saves a black man who's been...

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A Private Matter (1992)

Cast: Sissy Spacek Estelle Parsons   

Tags: Docudrama Feminist Film Drama 

Length: 89min

When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in motion...

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Loverboy (1989)

Cast: Carrie Fisher   

Tags: Comedy Farce 

Length: 105min

Joan Micklin Silver's farce stars Patrick Dempsey as a pizza delivery boy who begins satisfying the romantic needs of a group of bored Beverly Hills housewives. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)

Cast: David Strathairn   

Tags: Comedy Family Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 98min

Joan Micklin Silver tries her mighty best to wring something substantial out of Frank Mugavero's banal sit-com screenplay concerning the effect of divorce on the divorced parents' off-spring. Hillary Wolf stars as Laura Chartoff, a lonely...

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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)

Cast: Joan Micklin Silver Penelope Spheeris Lolita Davidovich   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 94min

This made-for-cable women-in-prison film is an anthology collecting three short subjects. In the first, a pregnant inmate (Rae Dawn Chong) must seek protection from a gang; in the middle film, a prisoner tries to keep her family from following her...

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A Fish in the Bathtub (1999)

Length: 95min

After four decades in show business, the husband and wife comedy team of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara finally make their big-screen debut together in this story about a marriage on its last legs. Sam (Stiller) and Molly (Meara) have been married for...

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Crossing Delancey (1988)

Cast: Amy Irving Jeroen Krabbé Sylvia Miles Rosemary Harris Richard Rodgers Gus Kahn Oscar Hammerstein II Peter Riegert 

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 97min

Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is an attractive, intelligent Jewish woman in her early 30s. She has a good job and a nice apartment on the Upper West Side, and she...

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