The Survival of Dana (1979)
1h 36m
Running Time
May 29, 1979Release Date
The Survival of Dana (1979)
1h 36m
Running Time
May 29, 1979Release Date
Plot.
High school student Dana moves to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles after her North Dakota parents get divorced and falls in with the wrong crowd.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Melissa Sue Anderson
Dana Lee
Robert Carradine
Donny Davis
Marion Ross
Madeline
Talia Balsam
Rona
Michael Pataki
Arnold Denker
Jack Starrett
Director
Kevin Breslin
Roy 'Skates' Snider
Frank Norwood
Writer
Judge Reinhold
Francis 'Bear' Honfi
Dan Spector
Anthony Cavachi
Tom Lazarus
Writer
Marc Trabulus
Producer
Barbara Babcock
Lorna Sims
Craig Safan
Composer
Shelby Leverington
Mrs. Blake
Bruce Logan
Cinematographer
Dawn Jeffory
Joanie
Bruce Logan
Cinematographer
Trent Dolan
Coach Tanner
Scott McGinnis
Paul
Gary Carlos Cervantes
Big
Paul Hampton
Bill Snider
Ellen Blake
Mrs. Honfi
Howard Vann
Mr. Honfi
Details.
Wiki.
Survival of Dana is a 1979 CBS made-for-TV film, a teenage drama starring Melissa Sue Anderson, who experiences conflicting social values when her parents divorce and she moves from Fargo, North Dakota to the San Fernando Valley suburbs of Los Angeles.The cast also includes Robert Carradine, Talia Balsam (Martin Balsam's only child), Marion Ross, and Judge Reinhold in his first film. Anderson was on hiatus from Little House on the Prairie and Ross (playing Dana's grandmother) was at the time a star on the series Happy Days. Survival of Dana was directed by Jack Starrett, whose only child, Jennifer, plays Lynn, one of the members of the antisocial clique.