List of the best Joan Micklin Silver movies: Hester Street(1975), Crossing Delancey(1988), Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even(1992), Hunger Point(2003), Invisible Child(1999), Charms for the Easy Life(2002) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1975
90 Minutes
Director
Steven Keats Carol Kane Mel Howard Dorrie Kavanaugh Doris Roberts Stephen Strimpell Lauren Frost Paul Freedman Zvee Scooler Eda Reiss Merin
immigrant wife son boss landlady emotional gritty new york city ellis island lower east side assimilation immigration judaism culture clash marriage discovery pursuit sacrifice 1900s
It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1988
97 Minutes
Director
Amy Irving Reizl Bozyk Peter Riegert Jeroen Krabbé Sylvia Miles Suzzy Roche George Martin John Bedford Lloyd Claudia Silver David Hyde Pierce Rosemary Harris
bookseller grandmother vendor author heartwarming amusing new york city delicatessen bookstore apartment romance family culture maturing literature love rivalry transformation 1980s
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1992
104 Minutes
Director
Hillary Wolf David Strathairn Margaret Whitton Griffin Dunne Patricia Kalember Adrienne Shelly Dan Futterman
daughter father stepbrother stepfather stepsister stepmother amusing emotional heartwarming california lake san francisco household family dysfunction running away hitchhiking loyalty divorce teen angst escape
A girl fed up with her quirky, disfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
Drama
2003
96 Minutes
Director
Barbara Hershey Christina Hendricks Susan May Pratt John Getz
A domineering mother's (Barbara Hershey) insistence that her daughters (Christina Hendricks, Susan May Pratt) remain thin leads to dire consequences.
Drama
1999
96 Minutes
Director
Rita Wilson Mae Whitman Victor Garber Tushka Bergen David Dorfman Terry Diab Josh Adell Freda Foh Shen
A nanny is hired by a troubled mother and finds herself fighting to hold together the entire family when she realizes the woman has an imaginary daughter.
Drama
2002
111 Minutes
Director
Gena Rowlands Mimi Rogers Susan May Pratt Geordie Johnson Kenneth Mitchell Wayne Robson Kirsten Kieferle Kayla Perlmutter Ron Kennell Stella Sprowell
grandmother mother daughter husband doctor lawyer heartwarming emotional amusing spirited deep south house small town road mother/daughter relationship race relations marriage medicine world war ii female bonding
A homeopathic healer (Gena Rowlands), her daughter (Mimi Rogers) and her granddaughter (Susan May Pratt) defy gender roles during World War II.