Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0025192660481 Format: NTSC Label: Goodtimes Home Video Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video Publisher: Goodtimes Home Video Sales Rank: 8011 Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 10, 1970
Rating: - EXCELLENT!
I just love the sound of Carrie's voice! OK Where is the DVD???? I agree with all the previous comments.Just an adorable film. AND Alice Cooper plays at a party!! Now where is the audio of that scene?
Rating: - Read the Book, never saw the entire movie
I have an old copy of this book (it was my 70 y.o. mother's). I have read it numerous times, and enjoyed it. I love how the book depicts life in Manhattan (I am a native NYer). They never show this movie on cable (I look for it). I saw part of it once on late nite t.v. years ago. I would like to see the entire film, I was a small child when it came out, so I did not get to see it in the theatre. Hopefully they will put it out on a DVD version soon.
Rating: - A Man Needs A Maid--A Cook, Nanny and Trophy Wife
There aren't all that many false notes in the film DIARY OF A MAD HOUSE WIFE, but the ones that do occur are telling. When an egocentric, extemely misogynistic young writer insults a woman at a party (not the main character, although he insults HER plenty too), she responds, "I'm going to report you to Women's Lib." Now, I won't say that nobody EVER used such an insipid line back then. In fact, if it were intended as a mildly sassy bit of teasing repartee (i.e. had it been laced with a trace of irony), it might have passed as a kinda-sorta witty comeback (at least in some circles). But the actress whose line it is gives it a whiny, petulant reading that makes it just plain silly. It comes off as a particularly dumb and desperate attempt at social relevance. The screenwriting and directing duo of Eleanor and Frank Perry were not always known for their subtlety, but in this case, the heavyhanded nod to an emerging ... Read More
Rating: - "You're thawing....and you're just beginning to vibrate..."
"Diary of a Mad Housewife" seems, on its surface, to be a character study of stereotypes. Richard Benjamin completely over the top as social climbing, acquisitive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who mercilessly criticizes and belittles his wife. Carrie Snodgress totally passive and reactive as the put-upon, poor little harrassed housewife Tina (albeit in a REALLY spectacular apartment). Frank Langella a cardboard cutout of a sadistic misogynist. And yet....and yet. Thanks to the exquisite talents of the three leads, this film rises above the character-development limits of its script to become a fascinating study of its era (just barely pre-feminist) and of the anatomy of an extramarital affair. Richard Benjamin IS over the top as Jonathan, but since the story is told from Tina's diary entries and from her viewpoint as his desperately unhappy wife, she would naturally portray him as almost a caricature, his faults magnified ... Read More
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- Read the Book, never saw the entire movie
