Independence Day (1983)

Directed by

Robert Mandel

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young artist in a small town struggles to break free from her ordinary life and pursue her creative ambitions. She deals with personal pretensions and the challenges of her surroundings, including a friend who is a battered wife.

gentleintrospectivequiethopefulbittersweetsensitiveunhurriedearthy

What happens

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. 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 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." Wiest plays a battered wife. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Touched (1983)
• For Love and Honor (1983)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Man, Woman and Child (1983)
• Love Letters (1983)
• Between Friends (1983)
• Reuben, Reuben (1983)
• Heartbreaker (1983)