Movies: Joan Micklin Silver
- 1977
Between the Lines (1977)
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The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant....
- 1979
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
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Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman....
- 1989
Loverboy (1989)
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Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. But, as Randy soon ...
- 1999
A Fish in the Bathtub (1999)
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A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub....
- 1988
Crossing Delancey (1988)
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Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author,...
- 1992
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)
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A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other....
- 1975
Hester Street (1975)
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A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife...
- 1983
The Nightingale (1983)
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A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship....
- 1984
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984)
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A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun....
- 1991
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
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Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the experiences of w...
- 1988
Calling the Shots (1988)
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Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts....
- 1985
Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
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A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman....
- 1997
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
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In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption....
- 2003
Hunger Point (2003)
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A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences....
- 2002
Charms for the Easy Life (2002)
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The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society....
- 1999
Invisible Child (1999)
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A nanny is hired by a troubled mother and finds herself fighting to hold together the entire family when she realizes the woman has an imaginary daughter....
- 1972
Limbo (1972)
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A ride to the airport unites three women whose husbands are either prisoners or missing in Vietnam....
- 1978
On the Yard (1978)
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Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance....
- 1976
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)
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Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for....
- 1992
A Private Matter (1992)
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The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determination to obtain an abortion....