Best movies of Joan Micklin Silver

Crossing Delancey(1988)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.



Hester Street(1975)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 17

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ...



Loverboy(1989)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

College sophomore Randy Bodek is unfocused. The only thing he knows is that he loves his roommate, Jenny Gordon, who feels unappreciated as other things in his life seem to take precedence ...



Between the Lines(1977)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Story of an underground newspaper in Boston about to be taken over by big business.



Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even(1992)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A girl fed up with her quirky, disfunctional family runs away from home, casusing all of them to spend time with eachother.



Head Over Heels(1979)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. His roommate is ...



A Fish in the Bathtub(1999)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Sam (Jerry Stiller) and Molly (Anne Meara) are a classic bickering old couple, and their marriage has been forty years of sparring. Yet, when Sam refuses to move the carp he's keeping in ...