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Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 American comedy-drama film about a frustrated wife portrayed by Carrie Snodgress. Snodgress was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe award in the same category. The film was adapted by Eleanor Perry from the 1967 novel by Sue Kaufman and directed by Perry's then-husband Frank ...
Feb 15, 1971 · Diary of a Mad Housewife: Directed by Frank Perry. With Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress, Lorraine Cullen. A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.
Powered by JustWatch. Frank Perry's "Diary of a Mad Housewife" is about a long-suffering young woman who has somehow gotten herself married to the most supercilious dope in Manhattan. He's egotistical, cruel, insecure, immature, and bitchy. He sides with "his" children against his wife.
Diary of a Mad Housewife. A New York lawyer (Richard Benjamin) drives his wife (Carrie Snodgress) to a nervous breakdown, a daytime lover (Frank Langella) and group therapy.
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Summaries. A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer. Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears.
New York housewife Tina Balser resents the manipulation of her nagging husband, Jonathan, a status-seeking attorney, and the complaints of her spoiled daughters, Sylvie and Liz. At a gallery opening egocentric author George Prager propositions her, and she subsequently becomes his mistress.
Oct 1, 2021 · October 1, 2021. Photograph courtesy the Criterion Collection. The unromantic melodrama “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” from 1970—the last of six films on which the screenwriter Eleanor Perry...
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