Writing

Nancy Dowd

Born 1945-01-01 · Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an American screenwriter.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Slap Shot poster
6.8

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

Slap Shot

1977

Swing Shift poster
5.6

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.

Swing Shift

1984

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains poster
6.3

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

1982

Let It Ride poster
6.3

An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.

Let It Ride

1989

Happy New Year poster
5.8

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.

Happy New Year

1987

Love poster
4.9

A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.

Love

1982

Love poster
4.9

A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.

Love

1982