Independence Day (1983 film)
1983 film by Robert Mandel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Independence Day is a 1983 American drama film directed by Robert Mandel from a script by the novelist Alice Hoffman. It was designed by Stewart Campbell and shot by Charles Rosher. It stars Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Cliff DeYoung, Frances Sternhagen and Dianne Wiest.[1]
Independence Day | |
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Directed by | Robert Mandel |
Written by | Alice Hoffman |
Produced by | Robert Singer Daniel H. Blatt |
Starring | Kathleen Quinlan David Keith Dianne Wiest Cliff DeYoung |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher Jr. |
Edited by | Tina Hirsch Dennis Virkler |
Music by | Charles Bernstein |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $151,462 (USA) |
The film concerns the small-town life of an artist (Quinlan) and her challenge to become "what she's almost sure she could be." "Her desperation takes the form of affectations and pretensions that are a little like those of the young Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams and the young Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner, but the Quinlan character "has the talent driving her on past all that."[2] Wiest plays a battered wife.
The film was reviewed favorably by the critic Pauline Kael in her collection State of the Art: "Kathleen Quinlan plays the part of the woman artist with a cool, wire-taut intensity, Robert Mandel keeps the whole cast interacting quietly and satisfyingly, Wiest has hold of an original character and plays her to the scary hilt."[3] After years only available on VHS, Independence Day got a DVD release by the Warner Archive Collection in November 2015.[4]