Joyce Chopra — Director (17)

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Convictions (1997) IMDb TMDB
Convictions
director: Joyce Chopra actor: Jan D'Arcy / Cameron Bancroft …
It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers he's not the monster she thought he was.

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Baby Snatcher (1992) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Baby Snatcher
director: Joyce Chopra actor: Veronica Hamel / Nancy McKeon …
other title: Biancas Baby / L'enfant du mensonge …
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.

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Rip Girls (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rip Girls
other title: 고래의 노래 / サーフガールズ …
A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic photography, and the truth about her mother.

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Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
director: Joyce Chopra actor: Maya Ritter / 托瑞·格林 …
other title: 莫莉:一个美国女孩的民政战线 / 一个美国女孩的胜利 …
Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly's life. An English girl comes to live with Molly's family to escape the bombings. They slowly become good friends.

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A Happy Mother's Day (2004) Douban
In 1963, the first US quintuplets to survive were born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. We meet the Fischers - the babies' parents - two weeks after the babies' birth; we see the physician and each infant. Then, we meet their several older siblings, see some of the donated items, watch dad take his older children around the farm in his Model T Ford, and follow mom on a shopping trip. The family discusses keeping the quints' lives away from the spotlight, and the city fathers talk about commercial possibilities. The film ends with a town dinner, speeches, and a parade to mark the quints' first month of life. The school band, the parents in a convertible, and then a sudden rain.

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The Last Cowboy (2003) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Last Cowboy
other title: 最后的牛仔 / 더 라스트 카우보이 …
John William 'Will' Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Will's estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfather's funeral, father and daughter clash over how to run the ranch and over the death years before of Jake's mother, which she blames on Will. Crisis comes in the form of insurmountable debt, and it is only by working together that Will and Jake have any chance of saving their home and their family.

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Smooth Talk (1985)
Smooth Talk
other title: 甜言蜜语 / 平稳的谈话 …
Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger (a memorably menacing Treat Williams). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.