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Joyce Chopra
Highest Rated: 94% Smooth Talk (1985)
Lowest Rated: 11% The Lemon Sisters (1989)
Birthday: Oct 27, 1936
Birthplace: Not Available
Former documentary filmmaker who made a polished and powerful dramatic feature debut with "Smooth Talk" (1985), a disturbing tale about a teenage girl's sexual awakening and intense mother-daughter conflict which boasted a fine central performance by Laura Dern. Though replaced by James Bridges on her next picture, "Bright Lights, Big City" (1988), Chopra recovered with the ensemble piece, "The Lemon Sisters" (1989), starring Diane Keaton, Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody, about childhood friends from Atlantic City trying to make it as singers.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Is a Film About My Mother | Anne Reed (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 75% | 50% | Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front | Director | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Wives: The New Generation | Director | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Last Cowboy | Director | - | 2003 |
| 60% | 46% | Blonde | Director | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Rip Girls | Director | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Replacing Dad | Director | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in a Small Town | Director | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lady in Question | Director | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L.A. Johns | Director | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Very Best Friend | Director | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan | Director | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Corpse Had a Familiar Face | Director | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Disappearance of Nora | Director | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Baby Snatcher | Director | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danger of Love | Director | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story | Director | - | 1991 |
| 11% | 19% | The Lemon Sisters | Director | $3.0M | 1989 |
| 94% | 46% | Smooth Talk | Director | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clorae and Albie |
Director, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls at 12 |
Director, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joyce at 34 |
Unknown (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joyce At 34 |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1972 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93% | No Score Yet | Everwood | Director | 2005-2006 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Director | 2003-2004 |
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Director | 2002 |