As an active screenwriter for the last seventeen years, Jackson’s films include high concept romantic comedies and movies set in or relating to India. Jackson wrote The Guru, a Universal / Working Title release which was the first Hollywood / Bollywood film to get global distribution. This month her original screenplay, The Other End of the Line, is being released by MGM. Jackson also wrote the film version of the bestselling novel, Confessions of a Shopaholic, a Jerry Bruckheimer Production to be released in February 2009.

During the past two years she produced and directed Lucky Ducks, a feature length documentary that deals with the high voltage topic of privileged children and the problems they face. The film—a third of which was shot in Bombay—is currently entering the festival circuit.

Jackson has taught screenwriting for six years at the HB Studio in New York and has lectured on screenwriting at MIT, Vanderbilt, USC, and UCLA, and at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference.

Jackson is presently writing a book for Harper Collins about why fifty is not the new thirty. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

Blog Entries by Tracey Jackson

David Letterman: Overblown

Posted October 6, 2009 | 02:38 PM (EST)


Okay, okay, we all learned this week David Letterman, like admittedly over 55 percent of American males, strayed outside his marital bed for some fun and games.

Everyone is yelling and screaming and blogging and carrying on, except the real truth is we have not seemed to learn or perhaps...

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The Real Ugly Truth

3 Comments | Posted July 24, 2009 | 03:26 PM (EST)


Reading the reviews of The Ugly Truth today in the New York papers and then going on Rotten Tomatoes to see it's abysmal fifteen percent on the fresh-o-meter has compelled me to write this piece, which could very well be the final nail in my own career's coffin.

Manohla...

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America Idolizes the Prom

13 Comments | Posted June 2, 2009 | 03:02 PM (EST)


Recession and swine flu outbreaks be damned: that most insipid of American traditions, The Prom, shall go on. In our city schools have closed, exams have been canceled yet not one prom even postponed. While they may be fun for some they encapsulate everything that is wrong with high school:...

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Countdown to Let Go

5 Comments | Posted April 30, 2009 | 04:41 PM (EST)


Everybody tries to tell you how difficult it is to raise a teenager. And like many other things in life we just don't want to be true we somehow convince ourselves our experience will be different. We will beat the odds, and some do - I was not one...
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Who Do We Keep Up With Now That The Joneses Are Gone?

Posted February 12, 2009 | 04:54 PM (EST)


Keeping up with the Joneses has been almost as American as Apple Pie and "Leave it to Beaver." The whole concept is actually something that harkens back to a kinder, gentler time - not that coveting thy neighbors property wasn't in play, since well, the beginning. But before unlimited...
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Learning To Live Without Your Eight Inches

Posted January 13, 2009 | 02:39 PM (EST)


A few years ago at the peak of what I guess we will all refer to as the good years, I was buying a TV at what used to be Circuit City. Now, I just wanted a normal (every boomer deserves one) flat-screened TV. I wasn't being extravagant I was...

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Spring Break -- Just Say No.

Posted October 21, 2008 | 01:46 PM (EST)


It's not even Halloween, yet private school kids all over the city are making elaborate plans for that bacchanal festival, often turned fiasco, called Spring Break. For many it has become as much a right of passage as the prom, with the major difference being it involves leaving the country...

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