Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
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77% of critics liked it
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78% of users liked it
(707 ratings)
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… More 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 is disenchanted by the obtuseness and chauvinism of her male psychiatrist. Nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Diary of a Mad Housewife, Carrie Snodgress dropped out of films shortly afterward to move in with rock star Neil Young - with whom she raised a child. She returned to cinema with a pivotal role in Brian de Palma's bloody thriller The Fury. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Frank Perry
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Aug 10, 1970 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
An engrossing story of the disintegration of a modern loveless marriage.
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
It's an entertaining satire that disappoints only in the stereotypically limited choices it offers to the woman.
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Roger Greenspun, New York Times
Among the performers, Carrie Snodgress will surely receive the critical praise she deeply deserves.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What makes the movie work, however, is that it's played entirely from the housewife's point of view, and that the housewife is played brilliantly by Carrie Snodgress.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
The three leads are excellent.
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Cast
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Richard Benjamin
as Jonathan Balser
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Frank Langella
as George Prager
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Carrie Snodgress
as Tina Balser
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Lorraine Cullen
as Sylvie Balser
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Frannie Michel
as Liz Balser
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Peter Dohanos
as Samuel Keefer
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Katherine Meskill
as Charlotte Rady
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Leonard Elliott
as Mon. Henri
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Valma
as Margo
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Hilda Haynes
as Lottie
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Donald Symington
as Pediatrician
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Mills Allison
as Women's Liberation Girl
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Alice Cooper
as Himself
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The Alice Cooper Band
as Themselves
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Lee Addams
as Mrs. Prinz
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Jeanette Du Bois
as Vera
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Lester Rawlins
as Dr. Linstrom
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Peter Boyle
as Man in Group Therapy
- Beverly Ballard
- Jason Holt
