Maggie Greenwald Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Tempted

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised Read More

2003
Comfort and Joy

Crew: Director

Actors: Nancy McKeon, Steven Eckholdt

Synopsis: A workaholic advertising executive discovers that there may just be more to life than the daily grind in this warmhearted Christmas comedy from director Maggie Greenwald. Jane (Nancy McKeon) is a type-A go-getter who has little time to think about such things as family and the holiday spirit, but Read More

2003
Get a Clue

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Shaughnessy, Bug Hall, Brenda Song, Lindsay Lohan

Synopsis: Lindsay Lohan stars in this Disney Channel cable-TV movie as Lexy Gold, a rich, spoiled teenage girl. While writing the gossip column of her high school newspaper, Lexy suddenly decided to become an investigative reporter, with a favorite teacher as her "target." When the teacher turned up Read More

2002
Songcatcher

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmy Rossum, Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Gregory Cook

Synopsis: Janet McTeer follows up her Oscar-nominated performance in Tumbleweeds (1999) with this period drama set during the 1910s. Dr. Lily Penleric (McTeer), an uptight musicologist, is furious after getting denied tenure again at an elite all-male East Coast university. She promptly quits out of Read More

6/15/01
What Makes a Family

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Co-produced by Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg, the made-for-TV What Makes a Family stars Brooke Shields, cast against type as a woman happily committed to a lesbian relationship. Yearning for a family of their own, Janine Nielsen (Shields) and her partner, Sandy Cataldi (Cherry Jones), elect Read More

2001
The Ballad of Little Jo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: The Ballad of Little Jo is based on a true story -- several true stories, in fact. Suzy Amis plays demure young Josephine Monagan, who in 1866 is run out of her home town after bearing an illegitimate child. Fleeing westward, Josephine is terrified by stories of how treacherous the frontier can be Read More

1993
The Kill-Off

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Loretta Gross, Andrew Lee Barrett, Jackson Sims, Steve Monroe, Cathy Haase

Synopsis: Based on a book by the great crime novelist Jim Thompson, this dark thriller is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey, where the only action in town is a run-down nightclub called Pavillion. The club's owner, Pete (Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll for Rags the bartender (William Russell Read More

1991
Home Remedy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Seth Barrish, Maxine Albert, Richard Kidney, David Feinman, John Tsakonas

Synopsis: The independently produced Home Remedy is virtually a textbook example of "Quirky." Seth Barrish plays a young New Jerseyite, displeased with the hustle-bustle of the world around him. He squirrels himself away in his huge suburban home, seeking only peace, quiet, and virtual non-movement. His Read More

1987