Independence Day

About Independence Day

Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers.

Independence Day (1983) is a romance film directed by Robert Mandel. It runs 110 minutes and was released in January 1983.

Its themes are dreams, waitress, car mechanic, and dying mother.

Kathleen Quinlan stars as Mary Ann Taylor, David Keith as Jack Parker, Dianne Wiest as Nancy Morgan, and Cliff DeYoung as Les Morgan. The screenplay is by Alice Hoffman.

Elsewhere, The Black Phone, and Lost Highway make useful companions to Independence Day, all filed under small town. It carries a R rating.