WRITER – FEATURES
ORIGINAL
“FIFTY-FIFTY” — Feature screenplay. A love story that becomes a triangle when a couple (partners in a design company) has a baby.1972.
“BOY CRAZY” — Feature screenplay. Set in country gentry Kentucky in the fifties, a southern girl falls for her older sister’s boyfriend during her debutante season. Light comedy until it turns dark.1978-79
“DREAMBOAT” — Romantic comedy about a young woman in New York City who has “Secret Life of Walter Mitty” fantasies about marrying a rich man. Co-writer: Elaine Mueller. Commissioned by NBC. 1986
“COUNTRIFIED” — Feature screenplay. A comedy about a city couple who move to the country (Kentucky) to become farmers and the transformation of their relationship in this new environment. Partly told from eleven year old daughter’s point of view who saves the farm from environmental degradation. Commissioned by PBS. 1987
“GONE BAD” — Feature screenplay. A comedy adventure with lots of music. About teenage girls getting into trouble on the road. Set in Kentucky and the Deep South. Co-writer: Rosie Shuster. 1989-90
“MIRACLE CURE” — Feature screenplay about a young American doctor and his girlfriend who get caught in the middle of an intrigue between rural shamans and international pharmaceutical cartels when they find a miracle cure in Sumatra. 1995
ADAPTATIONS
“SOUTHERN FRIED” — based on stories by William Price Fox and co-written with him. Commissioned by PBS. 1974.
“THE AWAKENING” — based on the novel by Kate Chopin. Commissioned by Jane Alexander.
“THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD” — About the life and loves of Emma Goldman. Original screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, rewritten by Nell Cox for her to direct. For Harold Ramis Productions.
Nell Cox 