Joyce ChopraFilmography

Occupation:: Director
Biography:: Filmmaker Joyce Chopra gained a reputation as a feminist filmmaker in 1972 when she directed and starred in the documentary Joyce at 34, which examined the effect of her pregnancy on her filmmaking career. She continued making documentaries until 1986 when her first fictional feature-film Smooth...Read More

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Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

Crew: Director

Actors: Maya Ritter, David Aaron Baker, Tory Green, Molly Ringwald, Genevieve Farrell, Andrew Chalmers, Sarah Manninen

Synopsis: You've met Samantha and Felicity, and in this, the third installment of the American Girl series, viewers are treated to an all-new family-friendly adventure that will warm your heart during the chilly holiday season. Molly Ringwald and Maya Ritter star as director Joyce Chopra brings the Read More

2006
The Last Cowboy

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennie Garth, Lance Henriksen, Bradley Cooper, Dylan Wagner, M.C. Gainey

Synopsis: The title character in this made-for-cable contemporary Western could be hard-bitten cattle rancher John William Cooper (Lance Henriksen), or, for that matter, John's long-estranged daughter Jacqueline "Jake" Cooper (Jennie Garth). Having broken off relations with her dad due to an unpleasant Read More

2003
Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation

Crew: Director

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert, Robin Givens, Jack Scalia, Greg Lawson

Synopsis: Adapted from Jackie Collins' best-selling novel of the same name, this glittery made-for-TV movie stars three veteran small-screen divas as the "newest" generation of Tinseltown spouses. Farrah Fawcett heads the cast as film favorite and top recording artist Lissa Roman, who hires handsome private Read More

2003
Blonde

Crew: Director

Actors: Poppy Montgomery, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Dempsey, Wallace Shawn, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: The remarkable life and tragic death of Marilyn Monroe has fascinated film fans for decades, but this two-part TV miniseries, based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, takes an unusual approach, using dramatic license (the film announces itself as a work of fiction using the names of real people) to Read More

2001
Rip Girls [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Camilla Belle, Dwier Brown, Stacie Hess, Brian Christopher Stark, Jeanne Mori

Synopsis: Long estranged from her father, Ben (Dwier Brown), Chicago-bred teenager Sydney Miller (Camilla Belle) travels to Hawaii for a reunion. Not that there's any affection involved: it seems that Sydney has inherited several acres of valuable beachfront property from her late mother, who died years Read More

2000
The Lady in Question

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Wilder, Mike Starr, Cherry Jones, Barbara Sukowa, Claire Bloom

Synopsis: Gene Wilder wrote and starred in this detective story produced for the A&E cable television network. Set in 1938, Wilder plays Larry "Cash" Carter, a one-time Broadway theatrical director who has moved to a quiet Connecticut town, where he oversees a community theater group and works as a private Read More

1999
Replacing Dad

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Linda Marsh (Mary McDonnell) may have been hoping for a surprise on her 16th wedding anniversary, but she certainly doesn't welcome the news that her school-principal husband George (William Russ) has been carrying on an affair with the teacher of the Marshes' daughter! The breakup of Linda and Read More

1999
Murder in a Small Town

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Wilder

Synopsis: Directed by Joyce Chopra, Murder in a Small Town stars Gene Wilder as a successful Broadway director who moves to Connecticut after suffering a tragic loss. Before long, the local police find that they could use his help -- his penchant for nailing human psychology and its motivations is uncanny Read More

1999
L.A. Johns

Crew: Director

Actors: Brittney Powell, Deborah Harry, Thomas Calabro

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, Brittney Powell plays Liz, an attractive young woman who is lured into the world of upscale prostitution by the jaded Madame Jacqueline (Deborah Harry). As Liz works her way up the social ladder as a high-priced call girl, she encounters a wide variety of men who have Read More

1997
Convictions

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nine years ago, the teenaged son of Idaho woman Zalinda Dorcheus (Blair Brown) was shot and killed by another teen, Jeff Parker (Cameron Bancroft). Now Jeff is up for parole, and the grimly vengeful Zalinda is determined to keep him behind bars. Going so far as to visit the jail where Jeff is Read More

1997
My Very Best Friend

Crew: Director

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Jill Eikenberry, Tom Irwin, Tom Mason, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: In this sudsy made-for-television drama, long-buried resentments, jealousy and other negative emotions re-emerge when a fashion model and an old friend are reunited. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

Crew: Director

1995
Disappearance of Nora

Crew: Director

1993
Baby Snatcher

Crew: Director

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Veronica Hamel, who'd previously played a detective on the trail of a kidnapped baby, turns kidnapper herself in the made-for-TV The Baby Snatcher. After suffering a miscarriage, Hamel becomes convinced that she will lose her husband's love. Faking a new pregnancy, Hamel allows nine months to Read More

1992
Danger of Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Penny, Jenny Robertson, Joseph Bologna, Richard Lewis, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a true story, a New York educator has an affair with a manipulative peer and subsequently finds himself implicated in his wife's murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Hunt

Synopsis: Helen Hunt stars as Pamela Smart, the schoolteacher who seduced one of her students into murdering her husband, in this torn-from-the-headlines made-for-TV effort. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Lemon Sisters

Crew: Director

Actors: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Kathryn Grody, Elliott Gould, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody are the title "siblings," three unrelated women who perform as a lounge trio and struggle to come up with the money to buy their own club. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

8/31/90
Smooth Talk

Crew: Director

Actors: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Levon Helm, Sarah Inglis, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Produced for PBS' American Playhouse series, Smooth Talk was given a brief theatrical release before its "official" February 9, 1987 TV debut. Laura Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact. Left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother (Mary Kay Read More

1985
Martha Clarke, Light and Dark

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Synopsis: Martha Clarke, Light and Dark records the dancer Martha Clarke's creative production for one full year, edited down to 54 minutes of dance scenes, conversations, and bits and pieces of her home life. As the dancer conceives an idea for a new routine, she discusses it with others and then begins to Read More

1981
Joyce at 34

Crew: Director