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Amy Holden Jones

Highest Rated: 78% Mystic Pizza (1988)

Lowest Rated: 13% The Rich Man's Wife (1996)

Birthday: Sep 17, 1953

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Birthplace: Not Available

Amy Holden Jones has worked her way through the barrels of low-budget filmmaking for Roger Corman to become an A-list screenwriter of studio productions and, occasionally, a director of mainstream fare as well. An art history major at Wellesley College, Jones studied film at nearby MIT. When her short "A Weekend Home" (1975) won an American Film Institute student award, one of the judges, Martin Scorsese, offered Jones a job as an assistant on his film, "Taxi Driver" (1976). Scorsese then introduced her to low-budget film titan Roger Corman, who hired Jones. Her first assignment was as co-editor of "Hollywood Boulevard" (1976). She continued editing for Corman's New World Productions, including the Mark Hamill vehicle, "Corvette Summer" (1978), and eventually was given the chance to make her directorial debut with the B-movie, "Slumber Party Massacre" (1982). (Oddly, feminist Rita Mae Brown wrote the screenplay, although its possible interior meanings have never been investigated.) Jones went on to direct features with strong female leads: Jamie Lee Curtis in "Love Letters" (1983) and Ally Sheedy in "Maid to Order" (1987).

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Highest rated movies

78% 55% Mystic Pizza
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67% 73% American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince
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56% 42% Corvette Summer
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46% 45% The Slumber Party Massacre
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42% 55% Maid to Order
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37% 34% The Relic
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34% 47% Indecent Proposal
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31% 36% Beethoven Watchlist
13% 39% The Rich Man's Wife
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19% Love Letters
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 74% Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film Self - 2006
37% 34% The Relic Screenwriter $34.0M 1997
13% 39% The Rich Man's Wife Director,
Writer
$8.5M 1996
34% 47% Indecent Proposal Screenwriter $104.9M 1993
31% 36% Beethoven Writer $56.5M 1992
78% 55% Mystic Pizza Writer,
Screenwriter
$12.8M 1988
42% 55% Maid to Order Director $8.2M 1987
No Score Yet 19% Love Letters Director,
Screenwriter
- 1983
46% 45% The Slumber Party Massacre Director,
Writer
- 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Second-Hand Hearts Film Editing - 1980
56% 42% Corvette Summer Film Editing - 1978
67% 73% American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince Film Editing - 1978

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs: Nightmareathon Director 2024
No Score Yet 75% The Resident Writer,
Executive Producer
2018-2023
26% 61% Black Box Executive Producer,
Writer
2014