Independence Day (1983 film)
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| Directed by | Robert Mandel |
| Written by | Alice Hoffman |
| Produced by | Robert Singer Daniel H. Blatt |
| Starring | Kathleen Quinlan David Keith Frances Sternhagen Cliff DeYoung Dianne Wiest |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher Jr. |
| Edited by | Tina Hirsch Dennis Virkler |
| Music by | Charles Bernstein |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $151,462 (USA) |
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.