Joanna MilesFilmography

Sex and Breakfast

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Kuno Becker, Eliza Dushku, Alexis Dziena, Joanna Miles

Synopsis: Four people get a crash course in the difference between love and desire in this independent drama. Ellis (Kuno Becker) and Renee (Eliza Dushku) are a young couple who've grown tired of one another, and though they're still in love, they aren't sure how to reignite the spark in their relationship. Read More

Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Yancy Butler, Luis Guzman, Jon Seda

Synopsis: Robert Mantegna stars as tough Boston private eye Spencer in this made-for-cable adaptation of the Robert B. Parker novel Thin Air. It all begins when Lila St. Claire (Yancy Butler, the new bride of police detective Frank Belson (David Ferry), is kidnapped by Latino ganglord Luis DeLeon (Jon Read More

ER: Flight of Fancy

Synopsis: Greene (Anthony Edwards) confronts unforeseen perils as he flies to Indiana and back with a heart-transplant patient. Carter (Noah Wyle) treats teenaged patient Trent Larson (Blake Heron), whose parents have not informed him that he is HIV-positive. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) tries to learn the Read More

Judge Dredd

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen

Synopsis: A violent, effects-heavy science fiction adventure, Judge Dredd depicts a nightmarish future in which overcrowded cities are terrorized by brutal gun battles and policed by "Judges," law officers who act as judge, jury, and executioner. Sylvester Stallone stars as Judge Dredd, a punishing enforcer Read More

Dark Reflection

Above Suspicion

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Christopher Reeve

Synopsis: In this high-tension thriller, Christopher Reeves plays Dempsey Cain, a paralyzed detective (ironically, it was filmed a year before the tragic accident that would make him a quadriplegic) whose arrogance and penchant for perfectionism has alienated his family to the point that his wife Gail (Kim Read More

Arthur Miller's The American Clock

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Loren Dean, Mary McDonnell, Joanna Miles, Kelly Preston, David Strathairn, Darren McGavin, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This made-for-cable version of Arthur Miller's play The American Clock was adapted for television by Frank Galati. Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Miller's own recollections, the film is set at the beginning of the Depression. When the stock market crashes Read More

Cooperstown

Synopsis: This gentle baseball fantasy centers on a former ball player who has spent thirty years bitterly brooding over the fact that he has been overlooked by the Baseball Hall of Fame. He finally decides to take action when his long-lost best friend returns from the dead to talk to him. Just before he Read More

The Heart of Justice

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this tense drama a reporter tries to figure out the reason a wealthy young man shot a popular pulp-fiction writer and then shot himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Habitation of Dragons

Synopsis: A dreary and depressing tale despite the excellent assemblage of talent, this is the story of a Depression-era family where sibling rivalry and tragedy seem to be the watch words of their home life. A period piece set in 1930s Texas. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Water Engine

Synopsis: A Depression-era inventor finds a way of revolutionizing manufacturing technology and then discovers that this invention has its dark side as well. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

Synopsis: Do not confuse this fact-based feature with the more tongue-in-cheek cable TV version, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom. This one looks seriously at the story of a Texas mother who was willing to kill to ensure her daughter's place on the cheerleading Read More

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth

Synopsis: Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected perspective. In this case, it's the perspective of two relatively minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Sarek

Synopsis: Mark Lenard, who played Mr. Spock's Vulcan-ambassador father Sarek on the original Star Trek, recreated the role in this Next Generation episode, which first aired May 19, 1990. Arriving on the Enterprise for an important diplomatic mission, Sarek surprises his hosts with his Read More

Blackout

Actors: Carol Lynley, Gail O'Grady, Michael Keys Hall, Joey Gian, Deena Freeman

Synopsis: Joseph Stefano, the screenwriter of the original Psycho, wrote and co-produced this somewhat similar suspense-thriller. Gail O'Grady (Eight Is Enough) returns to her childhood home and is plagued by nightmares and disturbed by her cold-hearted mother (Carol Lynley). There is a screwdriver-stabbing Read More

Right to Die

Actors: Raquel Welch, Michael Gross, Bonnie Bartlett, Peter Michael Goetz, Joanna Miles

Synopsis: Raquel Welch's astonishing performance in the made-for-TV Right to Die compensates for any number of script deficiencies. Ms. Welch plays a successful psychologist with a happy home life who is suddenly stricken with the dreaded neurological affliction ALS (aka "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). At first Read More

All My Sons

Synopsis: All My Sons is the 1986 TV adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1947 Broadway play (a film version, starring Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster, was produced in 1948). James Whitmore stars as Joe Keller, a bullying industrialist who'd been accused of selling defective weapon parts to the government Read More

As Is

Synopsis: Manhattan-based writer David Carradine falls victim to AIDS in As Is. Virtually abandoned by friends and family, Carradine is looked after by his gay lover, photographer Jonathan Hadary. Based on a play by William M. Hoffman, As Is wisely avoids editorial comment on the principals' lifestyle, nor Read More

Cross Creek

Actors: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Director Martin Ritt's bucolic rural environments of Norma Rae, Conrack, and Sounder, are re-visited once again in Cross Creek, based on author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' memoirs of her times on a remote Florida bayou. Mary Steenburgen plays Rawlings, author of The Yearling, who, in 1928, makes the Read More

Sound of Murder

Synopsis: When his wife has an extra-marital affair, an author of children's books decides to avenge his broken heart but is killed before he can carry it through. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sophisticated Gents

Actors: Paul Winfield, Bernie Casey, Roosevelt Grier

Synopsis: The three-part TV miniseries The Sophisticated Gents covers 25 years in the lives of a group of close friends. Nine African-American members of a sports club gather for a quarter-century reunion. As they reminisce over the high and low points of their lives, some of the members await the arrival Read More

The Promise of Love

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman gives up college and marries her boyfriend, a Marine. Unfortunately, he is killed in Vietnam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Fire in the Sky

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Merlin Olsen, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The story begins as an astronomer notices that a blazing comet is headed straight for Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately, no one believes him. They will eventually, but only after most of Phoenix has been reduced to cinders. Emmies went to the special effects (among the best ever seen on TV in those Read More

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis

Synopsis: This television miniseries is based on Thomas Tryon's complex and suspenseful occult thriller Harvest Home, delving into the forbidden rituals of the small New England township Cornwall Combe, whose residents offer annual human sacrifices to pagan gods in return for a bountiful corn harvest. The Read More

Friday the 13th... the Orphan

Actors: Peggy Feury, Mark Owens, Joanna Miles, Donn Whyte, Stanley Church

Synopsis: This gory horror film is not related to the far more popular Friday the 13th from Sean S. Cunningham. In fact it came out before the latter. It is the tale of a 10-year-old boy who doesn't know the difference between a boarding school and an orphanage. The trouble begins when his aunt informs him Read More

Delta County, USA

Synopsis: Delta County USA was the feature-length pilot film for a proposed prime-time serial. The titular county is an old, hidebound Southern community, harboring ever so many dark secrets. The dramatic tension of the film is manifested in the lack of understanding between the older citizens and the young Read More

Bug

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith Jackson, Alan Fudge

Synopsis: The last gasp of gimmick-horror auteur William Castle (who produced and co-wrote), Bug is an entertaining throwback to the mutant-monsters-amok theme of the 1950s (themselves throwbacks of another kind) that he found so profitable. The film stars Bradford Dillman as a kinder, gentler mad scientist Read More

The Ultimate Warrior

Synopsis: This lively action-adventure, is set in the near future where the population of New York has been decimated by a terrible plague. The city is terrorized by violent street-gangs running amok. The tale centers on one leader who insists on keeping vast stores of potential valuables and a helpful Read More

The Trial of Chaplain Jensen

Synopsis: The Trial of Chaplain Jensen is a fact-based TV movie starring James Franciscus. As Navy chaplain Jensen, Franciscus portrays the only US navy officer ever court-martialed on the charge of adultery. Lynda Day George is the woman who points the accusing finger at Jensen, while Joanna Miles plays Read More

Aloha Means Goodbye

Actors: Sally Struthers, James Franciscus, Henry Darrow, Frank Marth

Synopsis: Long before Sally Struthers began promoting mail-order college degrees, she starred in this made-for-TV melodrama. Struthers plays Sara Moore, a young woman suffering from a rare blood disease. There's a slim possibility of her survival, but anxious surgeon Dr. Lawrence Maddox (James Franciscus) Read More

Born Innocent

Synopsis: Born Innocent, originally telecast September 9, 1974, concerns the plight of a teenaged reform-school inmate, played by Linda Blair in her first important post-Exorcist role. Committed for being a habitual runaway, Blair is, for all her surface toughness, unworldly and naïve. All this changes in Read More

The Glass Menagerie

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Joanna Miles, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1950, Tennessee Williams' 1944 Broadway hit The Glass Menagerie was remade for television in 1973. Katharine Hepburn is top-billed as Amanda Wingfield, a faded southern belle who lives on her memories in a Depression-era St. Louis tenement. Sam Waterston narrates the story as Read More

The Way We Live Now

Actors: Nicholas Pryor, Linda Simon, Joanna Miles, Rebecca Darke

Synopsis: In this drama, a Madison Avenue advertising executive has a mid-life crisis and leaves his wife and daughter to embark upon a series of love affairs. Among his conquests are a professional dancer, a television executive, and a married ex-girl friend. None of them are particularly satisfying, but Read More

Kojak: Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death

Synopsis: Lorelai Mason (Joanna Miles) is the only witness when two brilliant but unbalanced psychology students, Casey Nystrom (William Katt) and Bob Viliano (Jim Borrelli), murder their professor and dump his body into the harbor. To prevent Lorelai from talking, the two cunning killers begin playing Read More