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Diary of a Mad Housewife

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Diary of a Mad Housewife
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R,1hr 34min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1970
Director:
Frank Perry
Starring:
Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress  ...more
Synopsis: Superstardom was predicted for Carrie Snodgress on the basis of her spectacular film debut in Diary of a Mad Housewife. Snodgress plays the long-suffering wife of pushy, insensitive attorney Richard Benjamin. Unable to withstand being treated as a trophy (and a tarnished one at that), Snodgress has a brief affair with sexy Frank Langella. Alas, Langella, like virtually every other male character in the film, is just as selfish and self-involved as Benjamin. Even when she enters group therapy, Snodgress ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Frank Perry's bleak study of the lot of a beleaguered Manhattan housewife features three excellent performances. Carrie Snodgress stars as the wife of a lawyer (Richard Benjamin) whose unbearable status-anxiety drives her into the arms of an equally neurotic emotional sadist (Frank Langella). Made during the nascent days of the women's movement, the film is a strident and simplistic take on the woman-as-victim, ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Richard Benjamin
Jonathan Balser
Frank Langella
George Prager
Carrie Snodgress
Tina Balser
Lorraine Cullen
Sylvie Balser
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