Directing

Joan Micklin Silver

Born May 24, 1935 · Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Died December 31, 2020 · aged 85

Joan Micklin Silver (May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020) was an American director. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska and received her B.A. From Sarah Lawrence College. Her early low budget film Hester Street received Best Actress Oscar nomination for actress Carol Kane. Her 1977 film Between the Lines was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. She is also known for the film Crossi…

Known For

Loverboy

Loverboy · 1989

MovieComedyRomance

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 learns, life as a professional gigolo can get pretty complicated.

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even · 1992

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey · 1988

Crossing Delancey

MovieComedyRomance

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, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.

Invisible Child

Invisible Child · 1999

Invisible Child

MovieDramaTV Movie

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.

Hunger Point

Hunger Point · 2003

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.

A Fish in the Bathtub

A Fish in the Bathtub · 1999

A Fish in the Bathtub

MovieComedyRomance

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

Finnegan Begin Again

Finnegan Begin Again · 1985

Finnegan Begin Again

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Charms for the Easy Life

Charms for the Easy Life · 2002

Charms for the Easy Life

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

Filmography

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Loverboy

Loverboy · 1989

MovieComedyRomance

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 learns, life as a professional gigolo can get pretty complicated.

Director

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even · 1992

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

Director

Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey · 1988

Crossing Delancey

MovieComedyRomance

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, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.

Director

Invisible Child

Invisible Child · 1999

Invisible Child

MovieDramaTV Movie

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.

Director

Hunger Point

Hunger Point · 2003

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.

Director

A Fish in the Bathtub

A Fish in the Bathtub · 1999

A Fish in the Bathtub

MovieComedyRomance

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

Director

Finnegan Begin Again

Finnegan Begin Again · 1985

Finnegan Begin Again

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

Charms for the Easy Life

Charms for the Easy Life · 2002

Charms for the Easy Life

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

Director

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chilly Scenes of Winter · 1979

Chilly Scenes of Winter

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

On the Yard

On the Yard · 1978

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.

Producer

Between the Lines

Between the Lines · 1977

Between the Lines

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days · 1984

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

MovieComedyFamily

A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

Director

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside · 1991

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

MovieDramaTV Movie

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 women on the eve of its release.

Director

The Nightingale

The Nightingale · 1983

The Nightingale

MovieFantasyTV Movie

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.

Writer

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Bernice Bobs Her Hair · 1976

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Presence of Mine Enemies · 1997

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

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.

Director

Hester Street

Hester Street · 1975

MovieDramaRomance

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 finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

Director

A Private Matter

A Private Matter · 1992

A Private Matter

MovieDramaTV Movie

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.

Director

The Fur Coat Club

The Fur Coat Club · 1973

The Fur Coat Club

MovieFamilyCrime

Two young girls with a passion for touching fur coats become locked inside a furrier's shop after hours when two burglars break in.

Writer

Limbo

MovieRomanceDrama

A ride to the airport unites three women whose husbands are either prisoners or missing in Vietnam.

Screenplay

The Case of the Elevator Duck

The Case of the Elevator Duck · 1974

The Case of the Elevator Duck

MovieDramaFamily

Young Gilbert lives in an urban apartment building. One day he discovers a duck in the building's elevator. Gilbert decides to keep the duck, but to keep his new friend secret from his mother. But his mother suspects something is up. In the meantime, Gilbert uses his detective skills to find the owner of the duck in his no-pets-allowed apartment building.

Writer

The Frontier Experience

The Frontier Experience · 1975

The Frontier Experience

MovieDramaWestern

The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. Based on diaries of the period, the program reveals the cruel violence, and even crueler loneliness, which early settlers encountered — but above all, it shows the quiet courage of those who lived it.

Writer

The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey

The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey · 1972

The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey

MovieDramaFamily

"A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has trouble fitting in at school and with his family."

Director

Faerie Tale Theatre

Faerie Tale Theatre · 1982

Faerie Tale Theatre

SeriesDramaFamily

A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

Teleplay