Joyce Eliason (Writing)
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Works
America
In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which began when he was taken by authorities from his crack-addicted mother, and placed into foster care as an infant. The short time of stability in his life occurred when America lived with Mrs. Harper, the elderly nanny to one of his foster families. Later reunited with his mother, she soon abandons America and he is again placed into foster care. Lagging behind in school and full of anger, America retreats further away from society after years of sexual abuse. After attempting suicide, America is placed in a treatment center where Dr. Brennan helps him open up about his painful past and discover the support and courage he needs to get his life back on track.
Release Date:2009-02-28
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:2
A Perfect Day
A family man is warned he has only forty days to live.
Release Date:2006-12-18
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:17
Riding the Bus with My Sister
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Release Date:2005-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:13
A Very Married Christmas
Lighthearted Christmas TV Movie about a man whose quiet, boring life begins to unravel when he finds out that his wife is having an affair and wants a divorce. Only after he meets a volunteer Santa, is he able to experience what a true Christmas miracle can be.
Release Date:2004-12-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4
Gracie's Choice
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Release Date:2004-01-12
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:57
Blessings
Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct gets him a job with living quarters as handyman on a semi-destitute estate Blessings. Working hard, he wins further confidence from the owner, bitter widow Lydia Blessing, unlike her in-living bitch nurse Jennifer. When a baby is left at the state, Skip takes it in and secretly cares for it. Lydia eventually finds out but sides with him, feeling robbed of grandchildren by her careerist only daughter Meredith. Then Skip's past comes knocking, and the baby's birth parents.
Release Date:2003-10-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Open House
To make ends meet in this romantic drama, a devoted wife and mom takes in boarders and, while starting her life over, falls for the most unlikely of men, a warm-hearted blue-collar worker, in this adaptation of Elizabeth Berg's bestselling book.
Release Date:2003-02-16
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:1
We Were the Mulvaneys
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Release Date:2002-04-08
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:7
Mulholland Drive
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Release Date:2001-06-06
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:6384
Blonde
A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
Release Date:2001-05-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:13
Amy & Isabelle
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart. She becomes lost and loses her confidence on Amy, spoiling their relationship. Their bond gets tied again when Isabelle discloses her inner secrets from the past to Amy.
Release Date:2001-03-04
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:3
The Last Don II
As the elder don dies, his young heir moves into the position. He quickly proves to be as ruthless as he tries to discover who has launched a plot to overthrow his rule and may be infiltrating other families. In a left over plot line, his aunt discovers that the young don had her son murdered first setting her off in a plot to kill him. Then when she is stopped she is driven into the arms of a conflicted priest. Meanwhile, an undercover FBI agent moves into the family home as a teacher for the don's handicapped daughter.
Release Date:1998-05-03
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:15
Blessed Assurance
Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his old flame Leslie, gets a job as an insurance salesman and begins to heal from the emotional damage caused by the war. But Jerry faces a serious moral dilemma when the job he depends on for his livelihood leads him to take advantage of an elderly African-American woman and the members of her community.
Release Date:1997-08-17
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The Last Don
Spanning decades, a powerful Italian crime family battles internal strife when a ruthless grandson seeks control after a violent wedding sparks unintended chaos, testing loyalties as lines blur between family and criminal enterprise. Best selling author of Mario 'The Godfather' Puzo's blockbuster new novel comes to life in this epic saga of America's most powerful crime family.
Release Date:1997-05-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:55
Titanic
Titanic is a made-for-TV dramatization that premiered as a 2-part miniseries on CBS in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus. This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship breaking in two.
Release Date:1996-11-17
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:100
A Loss of Innocence
Erik Eriksen, who has become a successful pianist in New York, is back in Templeton, his Mormon community, where he is still treated distrustfully by its members, including his family, for having 'betrayed' them in not living the life God had planned for him. Only his mother and his younger brother Jens, support him unconditionally. Erik falls in love with Chelnica, a beautiful young woman who plays the piano at the local cinema and a dedicated Mormon. The big trouble is that she is also Jens's fiancée, due to marry him soon...
Release Date:1996-09-28
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:2
Sweet Temptation
Jade is a sixteen year old girl with all the problems a teenager faces. Moreover, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother Jesse. Jesse falls in love with Billy, a much younger man who is also divorced and has two little kids. When Billy comes to live with her mother, Jade feels really uncomfortable; and maybe she is attracted to him.
Release Date:1996-03-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
Children of the Dust
Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.
Release Date:1995-02-26
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:6
Shadows of Desire
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
Release Date:1994-09-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Release Date:1994-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Release Date:1994-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Angel Falls
Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise of the series is Rae Dawn Snow and her teenage son moving back to her Montana hometown after the death of her father.
Release Date:1993-08-26
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:3
The Jacksons: An American Dream
The history of the Jackson family and the early and successful years of the Motown group The Jackson 5.
Release Date:1992-11-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:49
In Sickness and in Health
A husband hires a nurse to care for his wife, who suffers from Multiple Scleroses, but a relationship soon develops between the two.
Release Date:1992-03-08
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:1
Small Sacrifices
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Release Date:1989-11-12
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:14
Small Sacrifices
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Release Date:1989-11-12
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
Babycakes
Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.
Release Date:1989-02-14
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:38
Winnie
Based on a true story about a woman who is institutionalized as mentally retarded for 30 years while struggling to reach the outside world through her writing.
Release Date:1988-10-10
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:3
Elvis and Me
Priscilla remembers her life and her relationship with Elvis Presley since she was 14 years old. When she moves to Graceland, she feels like a princess. But her lover, the world-famous musician Elvis Presley, is rarely at home and increasingly resorts to drugs. Nevertheless, she decides to marry Elvis. After a while, the fairy tale slowly turns into a nightmare and the two seem to become estranged.
Release Date:1988-02-07
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:18
Elvis and Me
Release Date:1988-02-07
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Mistress
A woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.
Release Date:1987-10-04
Department:Production
Job:Supervising Producer
Vote Count:2
Right to Kill?
Based on true story of teens Richard and Deborah Jahnke charged in Wyoming for the killing of their abusive father.
Release Date:1985-05-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
Surviving
Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois and Harvey. Rick, meanwhile, is sunny and charismatic. But appearances can be deceiving, as their families learn when the teens begin a romance. Upset about Lonnie's influence on Rick, his parents forbid the pair to see each other -- with tragic consequences.
Release Date:1985-02-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
A Matter of Sex
Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
Release Date:1984-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Child Bride of Short Creek
A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his stable of wives by adding the 15-year-old girl with whom his son is romantically involved.
Release Date:1981-12-07
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:8
Tell Me a Riddle
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Release Date:1980-12-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4
Angel Falls
Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993.
Department:Creator
Job:Creator