---
name: "Amy Holden Jones"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amy-holden-jones"
fi1m_id: "amy-holden-jones"
imdb_id: "nm0427468"
tmdb_id: 21371
wikidata_id: "Q4749238"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 September 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 56
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T01:03:45.037799+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Amy Holden Jones

## Identity

Amy Holden Jones

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/amy-holden-jones
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** amy-holden-jones
- **IMDb ID:** nm0427468
- **TMDB ID:** 21371
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4749238
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Holden_Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4749238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427468/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21371

Writer. Born 17 September 1955 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 September 1955, United States
- **Active:** 1976–1997
- **Also known as:** Amy Holden-Jones, Amy Jones
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 writing, 1 crew
- **Average Fi1m score:** 56, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 92 (1), 1990s 56 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 56 to 51 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Family 2, Drama 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $532m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Holden_Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4749238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427468/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21371

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Indecent Proposal*](https://film.one/film/indecent-proposal.md) (50)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Amy Holden Jones is an American screenwriter, film director and editor. She studied art history at Wellesley College and film at MIT. She began her career as an editor on films including Hollywood Boulevard (1976), Corvette Summer (1978) and American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978), later working as assistant to Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver.

Jones directed The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), Love Letters (1984) and Maid to Order (1987). She wrote the screenplays for Mystic Pizza (1988), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Getaway (1994), The Relic (1997) and The Rich Man's Wife (1996), which she also directed. She created and wrote for the television series The Resident (2018–2023). She is married to cinematographer Michael Chapman.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), Fi1m 57, Characters — [page](https://film.one/film/beethovens-2nd.md)
- *Indecent Proposal* (1993), Fi1m 50, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/indecent-proposal.md)
- *Beethoven* (1992), Fi1m 60, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/beethoven.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Taxi Driver* (1976), Fi1m 92, Other — [page](https://film.one/film/taxi-driver.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Resident* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Black Box* (2014), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Beethoven's 5th* (2003), Characters
- *Saving Jessica Lynch* (2003), as Dee Lynch
- *Slaughter Studios* (2002), Thanks
- *Beethoven's 4th* (2001), Characters
- *Beethoven's 3rd* (2000), Characters
- *The Relic* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Rich Man's Wife* (1996), Director, Writer
- *The Getaway* (1994), Screenplay
- *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), Characters — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/beethovens-2nd.md)
- *Indecent Proposal* (1993), Screenplay — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/indecent-proposal.md)
- *Indecency* (1992), Story, Teleplay
- *Jack's Place* (1992), series, Creator
- *Beethoven* (1992), Writer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/beethoven.md)
- *Mystic Pizza* (1988), Screenplay, Story
- *Maid to Order* (1987), Director, Writer
- *Love Letters* (1983), Director, Writer
- *The Slumber Party Massacre* (1982), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Second-Hand Hearts* (1981), Editor
- *American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince* (1978), Editor
- *Piranha* (1978), as Hertz Clerk (uncredited)
- *Corvette Summer* (1978), Editor
- *Hollywood Boulevard* (1976), Editor
- *Taxi Driver* (1976), as Other — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/taxi-driver.md)

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