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Joyce Chopra
New York City, New York, USA
Joyce Chopra is an American director and writer of feature films and television. Chopra graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Chopra was married to America…
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Joyce Chopra is an American director and writer of feature films and television. Chopra graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Chopra was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until he died on February 23, 2009. Her first narrative feature-length film, Smooth Talk (1985), won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and was adapted by her husband, Tom Cole.
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2022
This Is a Film About My Mother
Movie Anne
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2008
Gramercy Stories
Movie Director
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2006
Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Movie Director
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2003
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
Movie Director
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2003
The Last Cowboy
Movie Director
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2002
Everwood
TV show Director
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2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV show Director
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2001
Crossing Jordan
TV show Director
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2001
Blonde
TV show Director
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2000
Rip Girls
Movie Director
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1999
The Lady in Question
Movie Director
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Director
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1999
Replacing Dad
Movie Director
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1999
Murder in a Small Town
Movie Director
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1997
Convictions
Movie Director
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1997
L.A. Johns
Movie Director
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1996
My Very Best Friend
Movie Director
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1995
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Movie Director
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1994
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Movie Director
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1993
Angel Falls
TV show Director
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1993
The Disappearance of Nora
Movie Director
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1992
The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Movie Director
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1992
Baby Snatcher
Movie Director
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1991
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
Movie Director
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1989
The Lemon Sisters
Movie Director
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1988
Calling the Shots
Movie Self
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1985
Smooth Talk
Movie Director
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Director
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1981
Music Lessons: The Kodaly Method in the American Classroom
Movie Director
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1980
Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal
Movie Director
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1978
Sally Garcia and Family
Movie Director
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1978
That Our Children Would Not Die
Movie Director
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1975
Clorae and Albie
Movie Producer
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1975
Girls at 12
Movie Director
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1973
Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person
Movie Director
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1972
Joyce at 34
Movie Self
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1965
Marathon
Movie Director
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1963
A Happy Mother's Day
Movie Director
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1963
Dead Birds
Movie Sound Editor
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1963
The Chair
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