A Woman Under the Influence
About A Woman Under the Influence
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months.
A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 romance film directed by John Cassavetes. At 155 minutes long, it arrived in November 1974.
Gena Rowlands stars as Mabel Longhetti, Peter Falk as Nick Longhetti, Fred Draper as George Mortensen, and Lady Rowlands as Martha Mortensen. Written by John Cassavetes.
Shelv files it under tense, ambivalent, disheartening, and cruel. It streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gangster Squad, and The Gift make useful companions to A Woman Under the Influence, all filed under mental breakdown. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 582 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.