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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.
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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Frank Perry
- 1971-02-15
A film critic's analysis of a comedy-drama about a masochistic housewife who has affairs with two selfish men. He praises the lead actress Carrie Snodgress and questions the husband's character played by Richard Benjamin.
Originally published in 1967, this fun and clever story follows Tina Balser, a sophisticated housewife who lives in Manhattan and seems to have everything—money, two beautiful daughters, and a husband who is a successful lawyer.
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- Paperback
Sylvie Balser. Frannie Michel. Liz Balser. Watchlist. Page 1 of 2, 6 total items. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A New York lawyer (Richard Benjamin) drives his wife...
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- Frank Perry
- R
- Richard Benjamin
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. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
A comedy drama based on a novel by Sue Kaufman, starring Carrie Snodgress as a housewife who cheats on her husband with a lover. The film explores themes of feminism, infidelity, and marriage in 1970s New York.
