The Survival of Dana
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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- Cast：
- Melissa Sue Anderson , Robert Carradine , Marion Ross , Talia Balsam , Michael Pataki , Kevin Breslin , Judge Reinhold
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The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
I get the feeling now and then of having to stay up wide awake late at night, watching these forgotten little movies. SURVIVAL OF DANA is noted for Judge "VICE VERSA" Reinhold's first movie appearance. That doesn't mean anything, because what this little lost made-for-TV movie tells is the story of a girl named Dana, who wants to make the figure skating team. Things suddenly go downhill for Dana, and the movie to go along with it. Without keeping up with the point of the story, it becomes ordinary juvenile delinquent fodder. I'm sitting through some events deemed too unnecessary, just to find an ending that would solve all of its problems. It may call for some reliable entertainment during the sleepless hours, but all it needed was some sticking to the point on Dana. A reasonable acting job is a crying shame for a potentially good effort thrown into the wastebasket. I can't blame a single soul who is looking for late-night matinees on a tight budget, but this'll do. Any movie with a well-known actor's debut is right on the money during a clearance sale. After that, you wished you hadn't felt so disappointed.