years later, that, “I just watched the movie and rambled on,” and that, “They took whatever dialogue they liked.” She received excellent reviews, with critic Roger Ebert saying, “Her voice sounds utterly authentic; it seems beyond performance.” Manz appeared alongside Ken Wahl in the 1979 teenage-gang drama The Wanderers, directed by Philip Kaufman, Her next role was in the short-lived CBS series, Dorothy. Manz then had a spot in the 1979 television movie Orphan Train as Sarah, as one of many orphans relocated from eastern orphanages to farms in the West and Midwest in the late 1800s/early 1900s. She then made an impression as the lead in Dennis Hopper's influential cult film Out of the Blue (1980). In Hopper’s drama she played Cebe, a troubled Elvis-obsessed teenager who masks her vulnerability with a punk attitude. Over a CB radio she broadcasts statements such as “Kill all hippies!” and “Subvert normality!” Her voice was subsequently sampled by Primal Scream in their song "Kill All Hippies", which was released in 2000. In 1981, she starred opposite Leif Garrett and Ralph Seymour in the television film Longshot, which focused on a group of teenaged foosball enthusiasts. In 1985, Manz appeared in a small role as a robber in "The Snow Queen", an episode of Faerie Tale Theatre. By the mid-1980s, she had disappeared from the industry which Manz insisted was not due to any dramatic walking-out-on-Hollywood story, telling Time Out in 1997: “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.” The director Harmony Korine, who admired her work, sought out Manz after a 16-year absence from the screen for the role of a fast-talking tap-dancing mother of one of the main characters in Gummo, his nihilistic portrayal of marginalized small-town life which was released in 1997. Manz then followed this with a small role as the roommate of Deborah Kara Unger's character Christine in David Fincher's thriller film The Game (1997). Personal life Manz married film-industry camera operator Bobby L. Guthrie in 1985. Together they had three children: Michael, Christopher (who died in 2018) and William. She spent her later life in Antelope Valley, California. Manz died in Palmdale, California on August 14, 2020, aged 58, of complications from pneumonia and lung cancer.