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A Woman Under The Influence
The wonderful marriage between Mabel and her husband is on the edge of breaking because of Mabel's madness. Her madness is a challenge to their marriage, their love, their patience. Can they overcome this or their marriage will break. Let's come to the film
















16 May 1930, Forestville, New York, USA

18 August 1926, New York City, New York, USA

8 December 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA

12 April 1904, Arkansas, USA

13 May 1934, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

11 January 1912, Italy

21 September 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA


27 October 1920, Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, USA



23 November 1914, Texas, USA


December 21, 2006
A insightful essay on sexual politics: Rowlands is terrific as a housewife who crosses the line into sanity. With a light feminist touch, she is perceived as a victim of repressive patriarchal order.
May 09, 2005
The most frightening scenes are extremely compelling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion.
November 12, 2008
Rowlands' performance in the title role is one of those tour de force numbers available only to screen players of alcoholics and lunatics.
March 12, 2007
John Cassavetes was one of those rare artists of whom it could be said that his flaws were his strengths, and his strengths were his flaws...Consequently, the film has to rank somewhere between the two in the Cassavetes canon, and I'd opt for putting it c
April 11, 2009
Gena Rowlands gives a career-defining tour de force performance that is a pinnacle of film-acting in an earth-shattering film that is unlike any other ever made.
October 28, 2013
Despite the fact that there's a lot of technique on display here, the film still described as cinéma vérité, which I suppose is a testament to how raw and emotional it all feels.
March 29, 2011
Falk and Rowlands -- in performances of almost indescribable intensity -- detail a marriage anchored by love, but tossed by the expectations of others and the unpredictable swell of madness.
January 09, 2009
An exceptional film .. a study in the complexities of love, in the subtleties of mental disorder and in the way society demands rigid conformity
October 20, 2009
Falk and the rest of the cast are exceptional -- even the smallest roles feel spot-on -- but Rowlands is the film.
January 26, 2006
An astonishing, compulsive film, directed with a crackling energy.
May 03, 2013
The primal violence that binds men and woman has rarely been evoked as plausibly or intensely as in this 1974 drama.
April 18, 2014
Magnifies in squirmy detail the efforts of a couple to cope with her -- or should that be their? -- mental meltdown.