Joan Tewkesbury

American film and television director, screenwriter, producer and actress

April 8, 1936 (88 years old)

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Scattering Dad

U.S. 1997. Fantasy by Joan Tewkesbury with Olympia Dukakis, Lucinda Jenney, Andy Griffith.

Runtime: 97 min.

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On Promised Land

U.S. 1994. Social drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Carl Lumbly, Joan Plowright, Norman D. Golden II.

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Wild Texas Wind

U.S. 1991. Social drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Dolly Parton, Gary Busey, Ray Benson. A country music singer suffers the violence of a depressive lover who brutalizes her.

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Sudie and Simpson

U.S. 1990. Social drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Louis Gossett Jr., Sara Gilbert, John Jackson. In the early 1940s, in a small town with a harsh climate of racism, a little girl secretly befriends a black drifter.

Runtime: 95 min.

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Cold Sassy Tree

U.S. 1989. Mores drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Faye Dunaway, Richard Widmark, Neil Patrick Harris. The old owner of a village grocery store causes quite a stir around him when he decides to marry a young city girl.

Runtime: 95 min.

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A Night in Heaven

U.S. 1983. Mores drama by John G. Avildsen with Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Atkins, Robert Logan. A teacher who is married to an engineer becomes infatuated with a student who does striptease.

Runtime: 83 min

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The Acorn People

U.S. 1981. Dramatic comedy by Joan Tewkesbury with Ted Bessell, Levar Burton, Cloris Leachman.

Runtime: 100 min.

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The Tenth Month

U.S. 1979. Psychological drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Carol Burnett, Keith Michell, Dina Merrill.

Runtime: 150 min.

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Old Boyfriends

U.S. 1979. Psychological drama by Joan Tewkesbury with Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine.

Runtime: 103 min.

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Nashville

U.S. 1975. Mores drama by Robert Altman with David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty. Various incidents occur in the capital of country music during a political meeting.

Runtime: 160 min.