Wanda
Wanda is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role. Set in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania, the film focuses on an apathetic woman with limited options who inadvertently goes on the run with a bank robber.
Plot
Wanda Goronski, an unhappy housewife in rural eastern Pennsylvania, stays on her sister's couch after leaving her husband. Walking across a field of coal and hitching a ride, she shows up to a divorce court hearing late, relinquishes her rights to her children and grants her husband a divorce.
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author | Barbara Loden |
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award | National Film Registry |
contentLocation | Pennsylvania |
director | Barbara Loden |
editor | Nicholas Proferes |
genre | crime drama |
keywords | bank robbery evangelical christian evangelicalism holy land holy land usa ice cream kill movie theater on the road on the run parking lot roadhouse theme park |
musicBy | Dave Mullaney |
producer | Barbara Loden Harry Shuster |
productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films American Film Institute |
publisher | Bardene International Films |
theme | heist independent |