Director: Joan Micklin Silver

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Birthday: 1935-05-24
Born in: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Biography: Joan Micklin Silver (May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020) was an American director. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska and received her B.A. From Sarah Lawrence College. Her early low budget film Hester Street received Best Actress Oscar nomination for actress Carol Kane. Her 1977 film Between the Lines was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. She is also known for the film Crossing Delancey which was released in 1988 and stars Amy Irving. She also conceived and directed the musical revue A... My Name Is Alice with Julianne Boyd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Micklin Silver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Loverboy

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. But, as Randy soon learns, life as a professional gigolo can get pretty complicated.
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Loverboy
Loverboy

1989

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Crossing Delancey

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.
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Crossing Delancey

1988

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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
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Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

1992

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A Fish in the Bathtub

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.
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A Fish in the Bathtub

1999

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Hester Street

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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Hester Street

1975

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Chilly Scenes of Winter

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
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Chilly Scenes of Winter

1979

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In the Presence of Mine Enemies

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies

1997

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Between the Lines

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
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Between the Lines

1977

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