Jo-Ann Chorney

Movies

The Mermaid Chair
Production Design
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
The Engagement Ring
Production Design
A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
Production Design
With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
Pilgrim
Set Designer
A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.
A Cooler Climate
Production Design
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
A Murder of Crows
Production Design
After a lawyer gets disbared, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book. He then finds himself, trying to prove that he is innocent of the murders
The Ride
Production Design
A has-been cowboy is given a second chance at the hands of an unexpected teacher.
Unwed Father
Production Design
9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Dangerous Indiscretion
Production Design
A womanizing executive picks up a divoree and embarks in an affair, only to have his life destroyed by her jealous husband.
A Case for Murder
Production Design
Jack Hammett is an aggressive young defence attorney on the rise up the corporate ladder. In the courtroom he's known as the "Hail Mary Kid" for his ability to win the unwinnable cases. When one of the firm's lawyers, Darren Gaines, is murdered and Gaines' wife is charged, Hammett is assigned as her attorney. Hammett asks Kate Weldon, a recently hired lawyer, to assist him. Together they discover some inconsistencies in the case as well as a possible connection to the recent murder of a judge.
Jack Reed: Deadly Matrimony
Production Design
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously. Sergeant John Reed has had enough of his city's organized crime and, against the wishes of his dirty-cop superiors, tries to get evidence against Alan Masters. After Alan finds out that Diane has been helping Reed, he beats her to death...and its up to John Reed to put him away for it, and clean up the dirty cops that want to stop him. Part I starts with Diane's death and then, in a flashback, details her struggles against abuse and Reed's struggles as he coaches her to gather evidence against Alan. Part II deals with Reed's struggles with intimidating cops.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Production Design
A hot new model takes the fashion world by storm, but things start to turn ugly when people around her begin turning up dead.
Murder C.O.D.
Production Design
Someone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit most from the death, to pay him for this "service". Captain Murtaugh leads the police investigation. When his wife starts feeling stalked, he suspects his current case is related to his last one in Chicago. He never told his wife the whole truth about what happened - now he has to fear for her life.
The Long Road Home
Art Direction
In the late 1960s, a Harvard dropout's decision to take a job in Canada is misinterpreted as a political statement.
The Long Road Home
Line Producer
In the late 1960s, a Harvard dropout's decision to take a job in Canada is misinterpreted as a political statement.
Cold Comfort
Art Direction
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught up in a madman's game.
Street Justice
Art Direction
A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
The Supernaturals
Art Direction
Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
Prom Night
Set Dresser
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously