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4.4/10   22 votes
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Tom Lazarus (writer)
Frank Norwood (screenplay)
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Release Date:
29 May 1979 (USA) more
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High school student Dana accepts a great deal of probation after her accompanying friend was caught shoplifting. | add synopsis
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Potentially good teenage drama is a shamingly wasted effort. more (1 total)

Cast

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Melissa Sue Anderson ... Dana Lee

Robert Carradine ... Donny Davis

Marion Ross ... Madeline

Talia Balsam ... Rona
Michael Pataki ... Arnold
Kevin Breslin ... Skates

Judge Reinhold ... Bear

Dan Spector ... Anthony
Barbara Babcock ... Lorna Sims

Shelby Leverington ... Mrs. Blake

Dawn Jeffory ... Joanie
Trent Dolan ... Coach Tanner

Scott McGinnis ... Paul

Gary Cervantes ... Big
Paul Hampton ... Bill Snyder
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On the Edge: The Survival of Dana (USA) (video title)
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96 min
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2 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Potentially good teenage drama is a shamingly wasted effort., 3 April 1999
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Author: Jason C. Atwood from Suffolk, Virginia

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.

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