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About. A Woman Under the Influence. DRAMA. John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Starring Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (in two of the most harrowing screen performances of the 1970s) as a married couple deeply in love yet unable to ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Cassavetes observes the ricochets between Mabel’s health and her in-laws’ “influence”— but at the heart of this film is her relationship with her conservative husband (an equally amazing Peter Falk), who struggles in vain to pull Mabel out of her ever-worsening decline. Both tough-as-bricks and delicate, WOMAN goes straight for the ...
Woman Under The Influence, A -- (Movie Clip) The Palisades Caved In Writer and director John Cassavetes' improbable and fascinating opening, Peter Falk, who was the film's main financier, as "Nick," with his construction crew, taking a firm and futile stand, in A Woman Under The Influence, 1974, starring Gena Rowlands.
Chicago Sun-Times. A Woman Under the Influence gives us a woman whose influences only gradually reveal themselves. And as they do, they give us insights not only into one specific, brilliantly created, woman but into some of the problems of surviving in a society where very few people are fully liberated. Read More. By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW.
A drunk woman is taken home by a man. He carries her passed-out body inside and forces himself on her. Rape is implied. The two leads kiss and are seen clothed in bed (sex not implied). No nudity, except for some children as they change into costume. The naked children in the film were children of the crew members and cast and the context of ...
A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The story follows a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose unusual be...
In 2004, actors Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands sat down in Rowlands’s home to discuss their landmark collaboration on Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence, in a conversation for Criterion. In the seventeen-minute dialogue, Falk (who died in 2011) and Rowlands touch on the nature of their working relationships with the legendary director and the intensely challenging roles they took on ...
