Biography
Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter, film director, and playwright best known for literary adaptations. Her notable screenplays include Little Women (1994), Matilda (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. She wrote and directed the 2007 film The Jane Austen Book...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Practical Magic 2
2026
Characters
A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing f...
Little Women
2019
Producer
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Wakefield
2017
Writer, Director
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
The Promise
2016
Writer
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated ...
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
as Self
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances M...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
Story
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...
The Jane Austen Book Club
2007
Director, Screenplay
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing wi...
Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
Screenplay
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Practical Magic
1998
Screenplay, Co-Producer
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, d...
Matilda
1996
Screenplay, Co-Producer
Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia misunderstand her because they think she is...
The Perez Family
1995
Screenplay
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dis...
Little Women
1994
Screenplay, Co-Producer
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a c...
Shag
1989
Screenplay
Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsibl...
You Ruined My Life
1987
Screenplay
"You Ruined My Life" was a cute TV movie (from the Wonderful World of Disney movies that they show on Saturday or Sunday nights) starring Soleil Moon ...
Cuba Crossing
1980
Writer
An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.