Nancy Dowd is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Unit Production Manager, Assistant Editor and Additional Writing American born on 1 january 1945 at Framingham (USA)
Nancy Dowd
Nancy Dowd participated to
14 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
3 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Scriptwriter
, 2h4
Directed by Robert RedfordOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about suicide,
Films about psychiatryActors Donald Sutherland,
Mary Tyler Moore,
Timothy Hutton,
Judd Hirsch,
Elizabeth McGovern,
M. Emmet WalshRating76%
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the death of one teenage son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a four-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. He feels alienated from his friends and family and begins seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger (Judd Hirsch). Berger learns that Conrad was involved in a sailing accident in which his older brother, Buck, whom everyone idolized, died. Conrad now deals with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt., 2h16
Directed by Taylor HackfordOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Dance films,
Political filmsActors Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Gregory Hines,
Jerzy Skolimowski,
Helen Mirren,
Geraldine Page,
Isabella RosselliniRating66%
Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is a Soviet ballet dancer who had defected from the Soviet Union. The plane carrying him to a next performance in Tokyo has engine trouble and crashes in Siberia. He is hurt and is soon recognized by KGB officer Colonel Chaiko (Jerzy Skolimowski). Chaiko then contacts African-American tap dancer, Raymond Greenwood (Hines), who has defected to the Soviet Union, and gets them both to Leningrad. Chaiko wants Rodchenko to dance at the season's opening night at the Kirov, and Greenwood to babysit Rodchenko. To convince Rodchenko, Chaiko uses Galina Ivanova (Mirren), a former ballerina who never left the Soviet Union and is an old flame of Rodchenko. After an initial period of racial and artistic friction, the two dancers (and defectors in opposite directions) become strong friends. When Raymond finds that his wife Darya Greenwood (Rossellini) is pregnant, he decides he doesn't want his son to grow up in the Soviet Union, and together with Rodchenko they plan an escape, with the help from Galina, who still has feelings for Rodchenko. While the escape plan is going on, Raymond chooses to stay behind to delay Chaiko, gaining time for Nikolai and Darya to get to the American Consulate at Leningrad. Even though Raymond is incarcerated when the whole plan is revealed, he is finally traded by the Soviets for a political prisoner from America, and reunites with his wife and Nikolai., 2h7
Directed by Hal AshbyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Politique,
Films about sexuality,
Films about disabilities,
Political filmsActors Jane Fonda,
Jon Voight,
Bruce Dern,
Penelope Milford,
Robert Carradine,
Robert GintyRoles Story
Rating72%
In the spring of 1968 in California, Sally (Jane Fonda), a loyal and conservative military wife, is married to Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), a captain in the United States Marine Corps who is about to be deployed to Vietnam. As a dedicated military officer, Bob sees it primarily as an opportunity for progress. At first, Sally dreads being left alone, but after a while she feels liberated. Forced to find housing off the base she moves into a new apartment by the beach and buys a sports car. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veterans' hospital. This, in part, is motivated by her bohemian friend Vi Munson (Penelope Milford), whose brother Billy has come home after just two weeks in Vietnam with grave emotional problems and now resides in the VA hospital.