Biography
John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.
Known For
Complete Filmography
After The Deluge
2024
Writer
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, an artist heads to a park to paint. When a traveler encroaches, angry sparks fly until the two find common ground.
Doubt: A Parable
2021
Writer
Sister Aloysius, a school principal with a mandate to uphold tradition, is certain something’s terribly wrong about the relationship between a young p...
Wild Mountain Thyme
2020
Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a...
The Red Coat
2019
Writer
A short film adaptation of the play of the same name by John Patrick Shanley (From the one-act collection “Welcome To The Moon”)
Cuomo: Doubt
2019
Writer
A priest comes under suspicion for abusing a boy at his parish school.
The Portuguese Kid
2018
Writer
In Providence, Rhode Island, habitually widowed Atalanta pays a visit to her second-rate lawyer Barry Dragonetti. Intending to settle her latest husba...
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009
as Self
A look at how the cast and crew brought "Doubt" from the stage to the screen.
Doubt
2008
Director, Screenplay, Theatre Play
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
The Hottest State
2007
as Priest
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
2006
as Self
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families, ...
Live from Baghdad
2002
Writer
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...
Congo
1995
Screenplay
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone bers...
Robot in the Family
1994
as Golddigger
A manic search for a valuable relic pits a father, son and trouble-prone robot against a nasty villain.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993
Screenplay
Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to th...
Alive
1993
Screenplay
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull...
Joe Versus the Volcano
1990
Screenplay, Director
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is th...
The January Man
1989
Writer
Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A we...
Crossing Delancey
1988
as Celebrity Party Guest
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While h...
Moonstruck
1987
Writer
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, ev...
Five Corners
1987
Associate Producer, Writer
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who pr...