Independence Day (1983)
January 21, 1983Release Date
Independence Day (1983)
January 21, 1983Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently Independence Day is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video, Sky Store
Streaming in:🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cast & Crew.
Kathleen Quinlan
Mary Ann Taylor
David Keith
Jack Parker
Frances Sternhagen
Carla Taylor
Cliff DeYoung
Les Morgan
Dianne Wiest
Nancy Morgan
Josef Sommer
Sam Taylor
Bert Remsen
Red Malone
Anne Haney
Rose Parker
Richard Farnsworth
Evan
Brooke Alderson
Shelly
Susan Ruttan
Nurse
Noble Willingham
Andy Parker
Cheryl Smith
Ginny
Robert Mandel
Director
Alice Hoffman
Writer
Scott Simpson
Youngest Morgan Child
David Dunard
Orderly
Daniel H. Blatt
Producer
Julie Weiss
Costume Design
Robert Singer
Producer
George R. Nelson
Set Decoration
Charles Bernstein
Composer
Charles Rosher Jr.
Cinematographer
Tina Hirsch
Editor
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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 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." 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." After years only available on VHS, Independence Day got a DVD release by the Warner Archive Collection in November 2015.