Light of Day

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Light of Day is a 1987 movie starring Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett and Michael McKean. It was written and directed by Paul Schrader.

1 Plot
2 Details
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External Links

[edit] Plot

Fox and Jett play a brother and sister who are lead performers in a rock band. The sister, Patti, is an unmarried mother and has a troubled relationship with her own mother, who is deeply religious.

[edit] Details

Schrader has expressed dissatisfaction with Light of Day, particularly its plain visual style: "I had progressed from being a person with a literary vision to a person with a visual vision, and in that film I tried to... suppress my new literacy" and the casting of Joan Jett: "it's a good performance, but... that piece of casting just did not work". (See Schrader on Schrader and Other Writings (2004) (ISBN 0-571-22176-9))

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A young Trent Reznor appears, with other members of Exotic Birds in the film as a member of fictional band The Problems.

Light of Day is one of the very few projects where Michael J. Fox has smoked in front of the camera. Fox has admitted to being a chain smoker (reference mentioning smoking:<ref>Michael Then And Now, Macleans, April 29, 2002. From macleans.ca, accessed on 25 November, 2006.</ref>), and that he avoided being photographed with a cigarette out of fear that it would encourage smoking^{[citation needed]}.