Screenplay: Joyce Eliason

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joyce Eliason. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Surviving (TV)

1985 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction Waris Hussein

Cast Ellen Burstyn · Molly Ringwald · River Phoenix · Marsha Mason

Synopsis Rick is a 17 year old golden boy whose father wants him to became a doctor like himself. Lonnie is a problematic 16 year old girl, who has just come out from a sanatorium after an attempted suicide. The families...

5.7

34 votes

5.7

34 votes

Babycakes (TV)

1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

5.6

44 votes

5.6

44 votes

Gracie's Choice (TV)

2004 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Peter Werner

Cast Anne Heche · Diane Ladd · Kristen Bell · Shedrack Anderson III

Synopsis For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father - and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are...

5.6

207 votes

5.6

207 votes

The Last Don (TV Miniseries)

1997 · Series · 258 min. · United States

Direction Graeme Clifford

Cast Danny Aiello · Joe Mantegna · Daryl Hannah · Jason Gedrick

Synopsis An acclaimed TV miniseries based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, this intense drama examines the violent, life-and-death power struggles within a dominant Mafia crime family.

5.5

292 votes

5.5

292 votes

Direction Karen Arthur

Cast Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs · Angela Bassett · Holly Robinson Peete · Margaret Avery

Synopsis The Jacksons are your average working-class family in Gary, Indiana; but when their father discovers the kids have an extraordinary musical talent they form a band. Winning talent show after talent show they soon hit it big when Motown calls....

5.5

743 votes

5.5

743 votes

The Last Don II (TV Miniseries)

1998 · Series · 240 min. · United States

Direction Graeme Clifford

Cast Jason Gedrick · Patsy Kensit · Kirstie Alley · David Marciano

Synopsis The gangland family saga continues, with the Don's ambitious son ascending to the throne of the crime family. But his reign faces two new threats from within: an FBI agent infiltrates his home, disguised as his daughter's tutor, and his...

5.0

81 votes

5.0

81 votes

Children of the Dust (TV Miniseries)

1995 · Series · 175 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Sidney Poitier · Michael Moriarty · Joanna Going · Hart Bochner

Synopsis Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'....

4.9

35 votes

4.9

35 votes

We Were the Mulvaneys (TV)

2002 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Peter Werner

Cast Beau Bridges · Blythe Danner · Tammy Blanchard · Tom Guiry

Synopsis Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, "We Were the Mulvaneys" is the heart-wrenching story of a happy, close-knit, small-town family whose lives are torn apart by rape.

4.8

34 votes

4.8

34 votes

Titanic (TV)

1996 · Movie · 173 min. · United States

Direction Robert Lieberman

Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones · Peter Gallagher · George C. Scott · Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis The tale of the famous Titanic passenger liner that claimed to be unsinkable. This claim was proved to be false when it hit an iceberg when crossing the Atlantic. The drama unfolds as the passengers and crew race against time...

4.4

3K votes

4.4

3K votes

A Perfect Day (TV)

2006 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Peter Levin

Cast Rob Lowe · Frances Conroy · Paget Brewster · Christopher Lloyd

Synopsis A family man and suddenly-successful author encounters a mystic stranger who warns him he has only 40 more days to live. Based on a novel by Richard Paul Evans.

4.0

260 votes

4.0

260 votes

Amy & Isabelle (TV)

2001 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Kramer

Cast Elisabeth Shue · Hanna Hall · Martin Donovan · Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter...

3.6

38 votes

3.6

38 votes

A Loss of Innocence (TV)

1996 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Graeme Clifford

Cast Jennie Garth · Rob Estes · Polly Holliday · Mike Doyle

Synopsis A young Mormon falls in love with his brother’s wife, and the catastrophic results threaten his family, his future and his faith. Based on the book “On This Star” by Virginia Sorensen.

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Shadows of Desire (TV)

1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Sam Pillsbury

Cast Nicollette Sheridan · Joe Lando · Adrian Pasdar · Richard Roundtree

Synopsis A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.

Not rated

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Direction Anjelica Huston

Cast Rosie O'Donnell · Andie MacDowell · Richard T. Jones · D.W. Moffett

Synopsis A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.

Not rated

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Elvis and Me (TV)

1988 · Movie · 240 min. · United States

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Susan Walters · Dale Midkiff · Linda Miller · Jon Cypher

Synopsis The story of Priscillia's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.

Not rated

Not rated

America (TV)

2009 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Yves Simoneau

Cast Philip Johnson · Rosie O'Donnell · Ruby Dee · Tim Rhoze

Synopsis Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America.

Not rated

Not rated

In Sickness and in Health (TV)

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Bleckner

Cast Lesley Ann Warren · Tom Skerritt · Marg Helgenberger · Ray Baker

Synopsis The Mother of a family has Multiple Scleroses, to relieve her and their daughter the father hires a young woman to help his wife. But the father and this young woman fall in love...

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Small sacrifices (TV)

1989 · Movie · 205 min. · United States

Direction David Greene

Cast Farrah Fawcett · Ryan O'Neal · Gordon Clapp · John Shea

Synopsis On the 19th of May 1983 Diane Downs stops at a hospital and cries for help. She is wounded and her three children are also wounded seriously. She says that a stranger shot at them but the investigation of a...

Not rated

Not rated

Love American Style (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Charles R. Rondeau · Bruce Bilson · Alan Rafkin · Leslie H. Martinson

Cast Stuart Margolin · Mary Grover · Barbara Minkus · Michael Callan

Synopsis An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Not rated

Not rated