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...lady's a dyke--big deal." Spencer's reaction to the discovery that his mother is gay sums up one's feelings about Lianna. For two, hours, the movie explores various stereotyped reactions to Lianna's realization that she is homosexual. Like the audience, she is bored--with her marriage, with her children, and with her monotonous daily routine...
John Sayles' Lianna (rhymes with Indiana) means to engage the middle-class emotions, then turn them subtly against the audience's expectations. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) has a sweet moonface and blue eyes that always look as if they have just left off crying. She has every reason to be sad: her husband, who teaches film at the local college, is an adulterous grouch; her two children do not offer quite enough challenge; her life is in limbo. So she tumbles into a lesbian affair with her night-school professor, Ruth (Jane Hallaren), to whom fond Lianna...
...intimate realistic portrait like this to come alive, every brush stroke must be telling, precise. It is a delicate matter of nuance and gesture, qualities Sayles meshed perfectly (on a $60,000 budget) in his first independent feature, Return of the Secaucus 7. In the more lavishly budgeted Lianna, everyone at first seems to be trying too hard not to try too hard. But as its heroine discovers resources of wit and self-confidence, the film does too. By the end it has turned a "problem drama" into a social comedy, full of cagey behavioral surprises and a lovely performance...
...film version of his novel The World According to Garp, Herlihy will play the king of the hobos in a new play by California Playwright Henry Murray, and Novelist and Screenwriter John Sayles will take Plimpton's cue and assume the role of seducer in a film titled Lianna...