Joan Micklin Silver Movies

Hester Street is a movie starring Steven Keats, Carol Kane, and Mel Howard. 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...

Head Over Heels is a movie starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, and Peter Riegert. 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,...

Crossing Delancey is a movie starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, and Reizl Bozyk. A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

Loverboy is a movie starring Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, and Robert Ginty. Randy is still unfocused after 2 years in college. His dad will no longer pay tuition and Randy gets a job delivering pizzas. Several cute cougars pay him...

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

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.