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Dominican Rep. A Woman Under the Influence
- Original title
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Year
- 1974
- Running time
- 155 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Gena Rowlands
Peter Falk
Katherine Cassavetes
Fred Draper
J. P. Finnegan
Matthew Labyorteaux- Angelo Grisanti
- Mario Gallo
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Family Relationships. Psychological Drama. Independent Film (US). Cult movie
- Synopsis
- John Cassavetes's A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative outlets. Instead, she pours all her energy into her family, spending her days waiting for her husband Nick to arrive home from work, and anxiously awaiting her children's return from school. This dependence causes Mabel to suffer a nervous breakdown, forcing her to spend time in a mental hospital. Meanwhile, Nick struggles mightily to keep his family together. When Mabel returns six months later, dazed and shaken, a "welcome home" party threatens to trigger another collapse.
As the confused, overwhelmed, and hypersensitive Mabel, Rowlands delivers one of the screen's most excruciatingly honest performances. This can directly be attributed to Rowlands's real-life husband Cassavetes, whose insistence on getting to the inner core of his characters' emotional states defined him as an artist. Falk portrays Nick with a harsh yet delicate pathos that is also honest and heartbreaking.-
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1974: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Actress (Gena Rowlands), Director1974: Golden Globes: Best Actress - Drama (Gena Rowlands). 4 Nominaciones1974: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Actress (Gena Rowlands)1974: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Original Drama Screenplay1975: San Sebastian Film Festival: Silver Shell & Best Actress (Rowlands)1974: National Board of Review (NBR): Best Actress. 2 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"The primal violence that binds men and woman has rarely been evoked as plausibly or intensely as in this 1974 drama"
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"[It] is so uneasily lifelike that the academy temporarily ignored its prejudice against independent productions by rewarding Rowlands and Cassavetes with Oscar nominations"
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