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
Plot 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...
5.7
34 votes
5.7
34 votes
Babycakes (TV)
1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Paul Schneider
Cast Ricki Lake · Craig Sheffer · Betty Buckley · John Karlen
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
The Jacksons: An American Dream (TV Miniseries)
1992 · Series · 240 min. · United States
Direction Karen Arthur
Cast Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs · Angela Bassett · Holly Robinson Peete · Margaret Avery
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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
Plot 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...
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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
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Riding the Bus with My Sister (TV)
2005 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Anjelica Huston
Cast Rosie O'Donnell · Andie MacDowell · Richard T. Jones · D.W. Moffett
Plot A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
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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
Plot The story of Priscillia's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
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America (TV)
2009 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Yves Simoneau
Cast Philip Johnson · Rosie O'Donnell · Ruby Dee · Tim Rhoze
Plot Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America.
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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
Plot 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...
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (TV Miniseries)
1994 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction Ken Cameron
Cast Diane Lane · Donald Sutherland · Cicely Tyson · Anne Bancroft
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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
Plot 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...
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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
Plot 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...
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