Charles B. Pierce with Eastwood, who liked the story and helped Pierce develop it into "Sudden Impact" (1983), the fourth entry in Eastwood's Dirty Harry film series. Pierce was given a writer's credit for the story along with Joseph C. Stinson. Pierce is said to have written the phrase, "Go ahead, make my day," the film's most famous line, which went on to be identified as one of the ten best movie quotes of all-time by the American Film Institute. The phrase was inspired by something his father once told Pierce in his youth while encouraging his son to mow the lawn: "When
Independence Day (1983 film) Independence Day (1983 film) "For the 1996 20th Century Fox movie starring Will Smith, see Independence Day (1996 film)." Independence Day is a 1983 film directed by Robert Mandel from a script by the novelist Alice Hoffman. It was designed by Stewart Campbell and shot by Charles Rosher. It stars Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Cliff DeYoung, Frances Sternhagen and Dianne Wiest. The film concerns the small-town life of an artist (Quinlan) and her challenge to become "what she's "almost" sure she could be." "Her desperation takes the form of affectations and pretensions that are a little like those of the