Joyce Eliason (Writer)

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Works

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 Date2001-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count6760

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 Date1994-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

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 Date1996-09-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

A Perfect Day

A family man is warned he has only forty days to live.

Release Date2006-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count20

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 Date1996-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count106

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 Date2004-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count64

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 Date2002-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count7

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 Date1997-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count57

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 Date2004-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Right to Kill?

Based on true story of teens Richard and Deborah Jahnke charged in Wyoming for the killing of their abusive father.

Release Date1985-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

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 Date2003-02-16

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count1

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 Date1992-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count52

Riding the Bus with My Sister

A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.

Release Date2005-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count15

In Sickness and in Health

A man hires a nurse to care for his wife, who suffers from Multiple Scleroses, but a relationship soon develops between them.

Release Date1992-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count2

Shadows of Desire

A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.

Release Date1994-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Blonde

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.

Release Date2001-05-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count15

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 Date1995-02-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

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 Date1997-08-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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 Date1985-02-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

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 Date1998-05-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count2

Vote Count16

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 Date1981-12-07

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count9

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 Date1993-08-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

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 Date1988-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count20

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 Date1989-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count15

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 Date1996-03-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

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 Date1994-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

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 Date2001-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count4

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 Date1989-02-14

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count38

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 Date2009-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count2

Small Sacrifices

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 Date1989-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count2

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 Date1988-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count3

Tell Me a Riddle

A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their estranged daughter before it is too late.

Release Date1980-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4

Elvis and Me

Courted at 14 by Elvis and wed to him at 21, Priscilla Presley recalls their life, times, and divorce. 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 him. After a while, the fairytale slowly turns into a nightmare and the two become estranged.

Release Date1988-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

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 Date2003-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

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 Date1984-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

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 Date1987-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobSupervising Producer

Vote Count3

Angel Falls

Angel Falls

Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993.

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator