https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544371/
Cause: pneumonia and lung cancer.
So sad!
That movie is very haunting and is one of the few grim teen dramas I've enjoyed watching more than once.
(Which, unfortunately, was NOT true for another one she was in - the 1997 "Gummo." It's enough to make the average person violently ill. I was warned by the critics; I should have listened.)
She was also well known for "Days of Heaven" and "The Wanderers."
"Out of the Blue" had this tag line:
"She's 15.
The only adult she admires is Johnny Rotten."
In some scenes, she could have passed for 13. However, she was at least 18 at the time.
I've always been fascinated with it, even if it's not quite as well assembled as "The River's Edge." (I don't recommend trying to find the whole movie on YouTube; chances are you'll stumble on big fat spoilers if you do, and if you liked "The River's Edge," you will not want this one spoiled!)
But, here's one trailer, at least, that doesn't really spoil anything...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rvhKOJNEMoc
As I said, it's grim.
And Neil Young sings the title song.
Check out the punk band names on the girl's bedroom wall - they are: "Teenage
Head," "Submission," and "Public Enemy." (Clearly not THAT band, in 1980!)
Oh, and Raymond Burr plays the high school counselor who astutely
suspects Manz is hiding something...
A few reviews:
"Utterly preposterous, Dennis Hopper's "Out of the Blue" is small-town
American gothic at its seamiest, with sleazy, layabout young ma
mainling, drunk pa fresh from jail after crashing a school bus, and
their street-wise kid gruesomely into punk. Sharon Farrell and Hopper
convince as horror-comic parents, but it is the magnetic runt Linda
Manz, with her fling-around limbs and small-hewn, epicene, ugly-
beautiful phiz, that makes this a must."
-John Coleman, New Statesman.
"Dennis Hopper's dogged, painful, desperately sincere "Out of the
Blue" is a portrait of a family that has fallen apart. Hopper's sub-
Cassavetes improvisatory style can be infuriatingly clotted and
inexpressive, but now and then the despair of an aimless, booze-
centered existence comes through with the force of a fist smashing
down on a table."
-David Denby, New York Mag.
From Movie Retriever:
"A harsh, violent portrait of a shattered family. When an imprisoned father's
return fails to reunite this Woodstock-generation family, the troubled teenage
daughter takes matters into her own hands. "Easy Rider" star Hopper seems to
have reconsidered the effects of the 1960s."
And, from critic Ty Burr, in 2010:
"...In the 25 years that followed, Hopper slowly evolved into a journeyman character actor, capable of enlivening good movies (1991's "Paris Trout" and bad ones (1995's "Waterworld"), taking jobs for the money and directing a few for the love or the fun of it. (1980's "Out of the Blue" may be his best and truest as a filmmaker, and 1988's "Colors" isn't shabby either.) Yet as younger and younger audiences appeared on the scene and the revolution faded in the rearview mirror, the anarchic glow in his eyes never dimmed.
"If anything, it grew more insistent. In the end, Hopper was proof, if you wanted it, that the '60s really happened and that they were far more dangerous than you know."
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https://extratv.com/2020/08/14/days-of-heaven-star-linda-manz-dead-at-58/
Linda Manz, who as an androgynous teen captivated many with her performances in the films "Days of Heaven" and "Out of the Blue," died Friday at 58. The cause, according to extended family posting on social media, was pneumonia and lung cancer.
Born in NYC on August 20, 1961, Manz was cast at 15 to appear as the narrator of Terrence Malick's period film "Days of Heaven," which was released in 1978 after an arduous shoot. Initially received with mixed reviews, it has gone on to overwhelming critical acclaim. Manz's improvised narration is widely considered an essential aspect of what makes the film — which is preserved in the United States Film Registry — an artistic success.
In 1979, Manz had the fondly remembered supporting role of Peewee in the hit film "The Wanderers." One of its stars, Ken Wahl, wrote of Manz on Facebook Friday, "She was great to work with and I'm glad I got to speak with her before she passed."
Manz's last starring role was in 1980's "Out of the Blue," in which she was directed by, and acted alongside, Dennis Hopper. The influential film competed at Cannes, and Manz's performance inspired a generation of actresses. Chloë Sevigny told Paper in 1995, "As for acting, I’d like to have a career like Linda Manz. She’s my favorite actress. She did three movies and all of them are masterpieces, except for 'The Wanderers.' Now she lives in a trailer park with three or four kids, I think. But I’d rather do that than do 10 movies and make millions of dollars and have them all be trashy films."
Natasha Lyonne told Interview in 2013, "The world at large doesn’t always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them."
Crowdsourcing raised over $60,000 last year to restore "Out of the Blue."
In 1997, Manz — who rarely acted past the '80s, appearing in a small role in that year's "Gummo" — told Time Out New York, "There was a whole bunch of new young actors out there, and I was kind of getting lost in the shuffle. So I laid back and had three kids. Now I enjoy just staying home and cooking soup."
Manz was preceded in death by her son Chris, who died in a motorcycle accident two years ago. She leaves behind her husband, Bobby Guthrie, their two surviving sons, and three grandchildren.
A GoFundMe has been set up for the late actor — whose married name was Linda Guthrie — to help cover final expenses.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Manz
(this has quite a few articles linked)
Lenona.