Biography
Jane Anderson (born c. 1954 in California) is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and director. She wrote and directed the feature film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005), and wrote the film It Could Happen to You (1994), starring Nicolas Cage. She won an Emmy Award for writing the screenplay for the miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Wife
2018
Screenplay, Executive Producer
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson
2015
The story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, a painter who was committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions wer...
Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson
2015
Co-Writer
The story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, a painter who was committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions wer...
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005
Director, Screenplay
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse...
Normal
2003
Director, Teleplay, Theatre Play
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
When Billie Beat Bobby
2001
Director, Writer
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
Director, Writer
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Ed...
The Baby Dance
1998
Director, Theatre Play, Teleplay
Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet ...
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Screenplay
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits ...
It Could Happen to You
1994
Screenplay
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winni...
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993
Writer
A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
Last Night at the Lobster
N/A
Screenplay
The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But mana...
Strange Arrivals
N/A
Writer
Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, in 1961, became the first reported case of an alien abduction, as they journeyed back from their honeymo...