Underplayed Gems

Independence Day (1983)

Independence Day poster
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
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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.

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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)

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