John Patrick Shanley Filmography

Born:: New York City, NY
Occupation:: Associate Producer, Director, Teleplay By, Screenwriter, Play Author
Biography:: Bronx native John Patrick Shanley studied educational theater at N.Y.U. before making a name for himself as a writer with his first published play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. His big breakthrough came in 1987 with the screenplay for the romantic comedy Moonstruck. Boasting an all-star cast and...Read More

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Doubt

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Synopsis: When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair become hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy. John Patrick Shanley adapts his own play for the screen under the Read More

12/12/08
Live From Baghdad

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Lili Taylor, Joshua Leonard, David Suchet

Synopsis: As America geared itself for another possible armed conflict in Iraq, the HBO cable service offered a dramatization of events surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Originally telecast on December 8, 2002, Live From Baghdad recounted the efforts by the CNN network to be first on the scene when Read More

2002
Congo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov

Synopsis: Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to Read More

1995
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Jay Leno, Rene LeVant

Synopsis: In this animated children's film from Amblin Entertainment, a group of four dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaurus rex, a triceratops, a hadrosaur, and a pterodactyl, are brought forward in time to New York City to entertain and befriend the children. However, when the dinosaurs are threatened by an Read More

1993
Alive

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay, John Haymes Newton

Synopsis: This is the first mainstream film to deal with the harrowing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in October of 1972 and who were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive more than two months of isolation. (The only other film to tackle the subject Read More

1993
Joe Versus the Volcano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy, featuring Bo Welch's signature production design. Tom Hanks plays Joe Banks, a man who hates his job, thinks the overhead fluorescent lights are making him sick, and quakes Read More

3/9/90
The January Man

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Harvey Keitel, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: This offbeat police thriller with heavy doses of humor was written by John Patrick Shanley, the former playwright who wrote Cher's hit romantic comedy Moonstruck. Kevin Kline stars as Nick Starkey, a brilliant former New York City police detective who has been exiled to the fire department because Read More

1/13/89
Crossing Delancey

Actors: Amy Irving, Reizl Bozyk, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is an attractive, intelligent Jewish woman in her early 30s. She has a good job and a nice apartment on the Upper West Side, and she values her independence; she often visits her Read More

8/24/88
Five Corners

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Quirky comedy, intense drama, and warm nostalgia are all combined in this eccentric look at one night in 1964 amongst the residents of the Five Corners neighborhood of the Bronx. The bulk of the film concerns Linda (Jodie Foster), a young woman who finds herself stalked by a disturbed rapist fresh Read More

1/22/88
Moonstruck

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. First, Loretta agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), simply because he knows how to propose properly. Read More

12/16/87