---
name: "Joseph Tropiano"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-tropiano"
fi1m_id: "joseph-tropiano"
imdb_id: "nm0873579"
tmdb_id: 1379604
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:10:42.724484+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."
---

# Joseph Tropiano

## Identity

Joseph Tropiano

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joseph-tropiano
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joseph-tropiano
- **IMDb ID:** nm0873579
- **TMDB ID:** 1379604
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0873579/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1379604

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0873579/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1379604

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Big Night*](https://film.one/film/big-night.md) (84)

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

## Biography

Joseph Tropiano is an American screenwriter. His first feature credit was the 1996 comedy-drama *Big Night*, which he co-wrote with Stanley Tucci. The film, directed by Tucci and Campbell Scott, follows two Italian immigrant brothers running a restaurant on the New Jersey shore in the 1950s. It received critical acclaim and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance.

Tropiano attended Yale University and later Columbia University on a Richard Rodgers Scholarship. His early professional work included public relations writing for *The Washington Post* and contributions to PBS documentaries and the CBS series *Picket Fences*. He later wrote the 2004 television film *Just Desserts* and published a novelisation of *Big Night* with recipes.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Big Night* (1996), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/big-night.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Just Desserts* (2004), Writer
- *Big Night* (1996), Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/big-night.md)

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