Screenplay: Nancy Dowd

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


Coming Home

1978 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Jon Voight · Jane Fonda · Bruce Dern · Robert Carradine

Plot Sally Bender is the wife of a Captain in the United States Army. He is sent over to Vietnam, and Sally is alone. With nothing else to do, she decides...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Slap Shot

1977 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Paul Newman · Michael Ontkean · Lindsay Crouse · Jennifer Warren

Plot A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, SLAP SHOT stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a...

6.5

5K votes

6.5

5K votes

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

1982 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

5.8

107 votes

5.8

107 votes

Let It Ride

1989 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Joe Pytka

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Teri Garr · David Johansen · Jennifer Tilly

Plot The story of Jay Trotter, a down and out loser who has a chance to make all his dreams come true on what eventually proves to be one helluva great...

5.6

103 votes

5.6

103 votes

Swing Shift

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Goldie Hawn · Kurt Russell · Holly Hunter · Christine Lahti

Plot In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where...

5.0

385 votes

5.0

385 votes

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

2002 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Steve Boyum

Cast Stephen Baldwin · Gary Busey · Jessica Steen · David Hemmings

Plot With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts...

3.4

312 votes

3.4

312 votes