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Lianna
Lianna is a 1983 drama film written and directed by John Sayles and starring Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, and Jon DeVries.
Plot.
Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is the wife of a college professor teaching film and media at a university in a small to midsized town in New Jersey, and the mother of two children. In an attempt to give her husband more freedom, at his request, and cure her boredom in being a housewife, she takes a child psychology class with her friend Sandy.
begins to accept it and support Lianna. Lianna also gets a job as a super market cashier. 
By the end of the film, Ruth moves out of town (and out of Lianna's life) to California to take another teaching job. Despite now being alone in the world, Lianna and her friend Sandy reconcile in the final scene which mirrors the opening scene of Lianna and Sandy talking at a park playground.
Cast.
- Linda Griffiths as Lianna
- Jane Hallaren as Ruth
- Jon DeVries