Review of A Woman Under the Influence (1974) by Jens T — 05 Jul 2011

John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence is an amazingly realistic movie, to realistic, that one can be trulley emotionaly engaged and shocked, and scared of the out come of the characters themselfs. Richard Dreyfuss have stated that he throw up durring the film. This is a picture made from Cassavetes own soul, he spend his own money producing the film, and got some help from our leading man Peter Falk, who plays it's excellet along with Cassavetes' first lady Gena Rowlands who is even twice as good as Falk. They both really are those mentaly ill people they are portraying.

A Woman Under the Influence is the story about the married couple Mabel (Rowlands) and Nick Longhetti (Falk) who is both what we can call mentaly ill, though Nick is more insane in are less harfull and more reliable way then Mabel is. Mabel seems to live in a driffrent world than her husband which is not the real one. The only thing that holds their marriage together is their love for each other.

A Woman Under the Influence is one of thoose movies I like to call "unplesent realism". It's a harrowing story, with real people and real issues, Insanity, and how it's effects the families, friends and specialy the children which really horrified me, it was so terrible that If I had the power to really interact in a movie, it would have been this one, and the thing I would have done was called child services right away. Gene Rowlands delivers her sole greatest preformance in her career. Thumbs Up!