
Directing
Joan Darling
Born 1935-04-14 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Joan Darling (née Kugell; born April 14, 1935) is an American actress and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Darling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
6.7With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary's sixty-year career in show business.
Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
6.5A student poet seduces his college president's wife, daughter, and girlfriend over lost financial aid.
Up in the Cellar
1970
5.9At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
The President's Analyst
1967
5.8Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
Kansas City Bomber
1972
5.6Hoping to repair their marriage, Jennie Logan and her husband move into a beautiful Victorian manor. When Jennie tries on an antique dress she finds in the attic, she is transported back one hundred years, where she meets the house's previous owner, David. As her feelings for David grow, it becomes clear that Jennie is not only torn between two men and two times, but she also faces danger in both worlds.
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
1979
NRWhen the perfect life of a pet parrot is suddenly interrupted, it has to navigate a new world when it can no longer understand the humans around it.
Bird's Eye
2020
8.7Pioneers in Skirts is an Emmy-nominated 60-min documentary following filmmaker Ashley Maria’s quest to peel back the layers of obstacles that can limit a woman or girl's pioneering ambition.
Pioneers in Skirts
2020
5.6A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.
Fearless Frank
1969
7.0Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.
Sunnyside
1979
Danny DeVito stars in and directs this critically acclaimed short film which was part of the ground breaking HBO/Cinemax anthology series, "Likely Stories." Danny plays corrupt Congressman Vince D'Angelo who is making a sleazy run to become Senator of New Jersey. In the process he spreads vicious rumors about his running mates and uses incendiary campaign commercials to get himself elected. His campaign is derailed when he is caught-on-tape giving a bribe to a G-man posing as a mobster. His response to the "Mobscam" debacle is to claim he was "conducting his own investigation" and then fakes an 11th hour assassination on himself to engender voter sympathy.
The Selling of Vince D'Angelo
1976
5.7A naive chicken farmer from New Jersey moves to Greenwich Village to open a coffee house.
The Troublemaker
1964
It is a visceral rabbit hole toward the authentic self. Filmmaker Elizabeth Lawrence takes an emotional, first-person detour inward. Oscillating through saneness and psychosis; debris and lucidity, the film stares at depression dead-on.
The Depths of My Despair
2023
Behind the camera
4.1A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.
First Love
1977
5.0A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned by her husband, leaves hash-slinging behind her to embark on a new career as a trucker in the rig her late father used to drive.
Willa
1979
6.3Meet Richard Jackson - a man fed up with the insanity of "plastic" suburban living. Rallying his befuddled family around him, Richard mounts an outrageously comic assault on credit card craziness, "Yuppie" status symbols and "the system" in general!
The Check is in the Mail...
1986
A career driven mother and her daughter don't see eye to eye when it comes to the daughter's future plans.
Supermom's Daughter
1987
NRTwo pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.
The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985
7.5"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad opened up his family's home to Miyeko, a survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. Although she is only in America a short time to have surgery on her badly scarred face and arm, her visit reveals just how many ignorant and intolerant attitudes still exist 10 years after the war's end. But Johnny, who also resents Miyeko at first, becomes one of her fiercest defenders after he makes the effort to look past her outward appearance. Only then can the scars begin to heal.
Hiroshima Maiden
1988
It is a visceral rabbit hole toward the authentic self. Filmmaker Elizabeth Lawrence takes an emotional, first-person detour inward. Oscillating through saneness and psychosis; debris and lucidity, the film stares at depression dead-on.
The Depths of My Despair
2023
NRAn ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Afterschool Special about an overworked housewife, who, as the title suggests, goes on strike, in order to persuade the rest of her family to share household chores.
Mom's on Strike
1984