Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of Sex and the City, The Tudors, Homicide: Life On the Street), commercials and feature films. Her works include the music video Torn (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film Kitchen Sink (1989) and the feature films Jesus' Son (1999) starring Billy Crudup and Crush (1992) starring Marcia Gay Harden. Alison Maclean was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1958, to New Zea...
Complete Filmography
The Rehearsal
2016
Director, Screenplay
First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral mi...
The Professor
2014
Director
A professor at a West Coast college dreams of marrying a cowboy.
Intolerable
2006
Director
A casting director puts a group of actors through hell.
Persons of Interest
2004
Director
A documentary concerning the detention of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.
Jesus' Son
2000
Director
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Subway Stories
1997
Director
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
Crush
1992
Director, Screenplay
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertak...
Kitchen Sink
1989
Director, Writer
From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and le...
Talkback
1987
Director, Writer
A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
Rud's Wife
1986
Director, Writer, Producer
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnec...
Taunt
1983
Director
Mystery and menace abound in this debut film from Alison Maclean (Crush, The Rehearsal). Made when Maclean was an Elam art student, the experimental s...