Light of Day

Name: Light of Day
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: February 6, 1987
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Billy L. Sullivan, Cherry Jones, Gena Rowlands, Jason Miller, Joan Jett

1987

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: February 6, 1987 | PG-13

Starring: Billy L. Sullivan, Cherry Jones, Gena Rowlands, Jason Miller, Joan Jett, Michael Dolan, Michael J. Fox, Michael McKean, Paul J. Harkins, Thomas G. Waites

Summary: The siblings Patty and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland, Ohio. While Patty is focused on their rock band, The Barbusters, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty's young son, Benji. Their pious mother reproaches them for their way of life, especially when they quit their jobs and go on tour, takingThe siblings Patty and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland, Ohio. While Patty is focused on their rock band, The Barbusters, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty's young son, Benji. Their pious mother reproaches them for their way of life, especially when they quit their jobs and go on tour, taking Benji with them. However, when their mother is dying of terminal cancer, they return home and resolve their problems with her.… Expand

Director: Paul Schrader

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 107 min

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Roger Ebert

This is a family drama, all right - but not one of those neat docudramas in which every character comes attached to a fashionable problem, and all the problems are solved in the same happy ending. The family in Light of Day is more like your average, everyday, unhappy family in which the biggest problem is that some of the members quite simply hate each other. Read full review

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The cast make the most of an intelligent script, with Rowlands and (especially) Jett providing most of the emotional punch. They create a powerful feeling of real lives being lived and lost. Read full review

Janet Maslin

As in Blue Collar and Hardcore, Mr. Schrader shows himself capable of launching the action in a powerhouse style. Once again, that forcefulness deteriorates as the film progresses. Read full review

David Ansen

Light of Day has the virtues of sincerity, but that may also be what keeps it so relentlessly mundane. [09 Feb 1987, p.75]

Rita Kempley

For the most part, American movies concern the middle class, console the poor and celebrate the rich, and Schrader tried to pay blue-collar culture its due. He may have worked an honest day, but he didn't come up with an honest drama. Read full review

Hal Boedeker

A combination rock-and-roll tearjerker and domestic drama. It is gloomy, boring and sentimental. [06 Feb 1987, p.C5]

Thomas B. Harrison

Evidently, Schrader didn't believe strongly in his own screenplay, and that lack of faith proves fatal. [06 Feb 1987, p.1D]

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