Survival of Dana (1979)

Original title

The Survival of Dana

Directed by

Jack Starrett

Genre

drama, tv movie, crime

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl moves from a small town to Los Angeles after her parents divorce. She struggles to fit in with a new social group and deal with conflicting values.

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What happens

Survival of Dana is a 1979 CBS made-for-TV film, a teenage drama starring Melissa Sue Anderson, who experiences conflicting social values when her parents divorce and she moves from Fargo, North Dakota to the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles. The cast also includes Robert Carradine, Talia Balsam (Martin Balsam's only child), Marion Ross, and Judge Reinhold in his first film. Anderson was on hiatus from Little House on the Prairie and Ross (playing Dana's grandmother) was at the time a star on the series Happy Days. Survival of Dana was directed by Jack Starrett, whose only child, Jennifer, plays Lynn, one of the members of the antisocial clique. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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