Nancy Savoca

Biography: Of Sicilian and Argentinean heritage, American director Nancy Savoca spent the better part of the '80s raising funds for her debut film, True Love (1989). Drawing from the lives of her parents, Savoca fashioned a story of a multi-cultural marriage; the director's attention to detail and keen sense of ethnic ambience were key factors in her winning a United States Film Festival prize. Savoca's next film Dogfight (1991) utilized the moment-by-moment approach first seen in True Love to chronicle the last day of "freedom" of a Vietnam-bound Marine. The director's most recent film was 1993's Household Saints, wherein Italian-American bachelor Vincent D'Onofrio woos and wins the spinsterish girl (Tracey Ullmann) he has "won" in a pinochle game. Like the rest of Savoca's films, Household Saints was co-scripted by Savoca and her husband Richard Guay.

Nancy Savoca's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average career score: 61
Highest Metascore: 80 Household Saints
Lowest Metascore: 54 Reno: Rebel Without a Pause
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
4 movie reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
55 Union Square Jul 13, 2012 Director / Director / Writer / Writer tbd
54 Reno: Rebel Without a Pause May 2, 2003 Director / Director / Executive Producer / Executive Producer tbd
80 Household Saints Sep 15, 1993 Director / Screenplay tbd
56 Dogfight Oct 4, 1991 Director tbd