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A Woman Under The Influence

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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Peter Falk \| Gena Rowlands

Director:	John Cassavetes

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 1.85:1,Anamorphic Widescreen

Languages:	English

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	23 October 2006

Availability:	In stock \| Usually dispatched within 24 hours

Cassavetes' most commercially successful feature and a benchmark of American independent cinema, A Woman Under The Influence is a devastating drama starring Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti, a mother of three whose blue collar husband Nick (Peter Falk) toils as a construction worker. Their simmering differences lead to a series of domestic dramas that eventually culminate in Mabel's nervous breakdown and six-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. Once released, Mabel and Nick must confront their uncertain futures.

A characteristically honest and uncompromising look at emotional breakdown, mental illness and suburban alienation, A Woman Under the Influence boasts one of cinema's most memorable performances from Rowlands, who won a Golden Globe and also earned an Academy Award nomination. Cassavetes was also recognised by the Academy, and his long-takes, extreme close-ups, 'improvisational' approach to dialogue (actually scripted) and attentiveness to mood and emotion as opposed to narrative pay dividends. Distributed by Cassavetes himself to avoid studio interference, this is a truly astonishing, maverick work