by Mystic Pizza Shack in Mystic, Connecticut. Jones envisioned Mystic Pizza to be her Diner, a 1982 bromantic comedy film by Barry Levinson, citing it as the female version of that film. She had expected to direct it and wrote it for herself to direct. The film was optioned by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. who held onto it for years claiming that his $5,000 option gave him the rights to it for the rest of her life. As she dealt with this situation she rewrote and directed Maid to Order and again was offered nothing while her apprentice editors were getting the chance to direct due to them being men. Eventually Samuel Goldwyn Jr. made Mystic Pizza with a male director, however, her version received high praise for its spectacular dialogue, and she began to receive offers as a screenwriter since at the time women were allowed to write films, not direct. Her next big writing offer was for Indecent Proposal based on the novel by Jack Engelhard, which made Jones a big-name screenwriter. Television work Eventually Jones began being interesting in television and pitched a show titled The Seventeenth Floor to ABC, NBC, and CBS who all wanted to buy it, however, she ended up writing the script for CBS. Next, Jones wrote a pilot for the WB during its brand switch to the CW about Harvard Medical School, entitled "HMS". Although it was shot, it did not get picked up, even in light of it testing higher than any other show CW had. After this she worked on the short lived show Black Box which was still early in her television career and as such, she still had a lot to learn. Jones equates the show’s plunder to summer shows not doing as well as they once did, and the fact the show wasn't filmed at its home studio, ABC Studios. Jones is featured in the first chapter of Julie MacLusky's book Is There Life After Film School? as well as in The First Time I Got Paid for It by Peter Lefcourt and Laura J. Shapiro. Jones is one of the creators of the acclaimed medical drama The Resident which premiered in 2018 and is still airing. The Resident is a response of sorts to other medical dramas on television that she claims she got tired of watching because they are all too similar and recycle the same