Lianna

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Summary:
After helping to kick-start the independent film movement in America with The Return of the Secaucus Seven, John Sayles wrote, directed, and edited his second feature, about a woman who finds herself staring life over after coming out of the closet as a lesbian. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is a woman in her early thirties who's married to Dick (Jon DeVries), who teaches fi... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Linda Griffiths - (Lianna)
Jane Hallaren - (Ruth)
David de Vries - (Dick)
Jo Henderson - (Sandy)
Jessica Wight MacDonald - (Theda)
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Review:
As anyone who's read or seen The Celluloid Closet knows, gay themes and gay characters have a history as old as filmmaking itself. John Sayles' Lianna isn't the first to document the coming-out experience, but it's one of the first to take it as its sole subject. Perhaps just as important is the inclusion of an element that's now taken for... Continue >>

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