A Woman Under the Influence
(1974)
In director John Cassavetes' heavy drama about madness:
- the increasing mental breakdown: ("She's not
crazy...she's unusual") experienced by lonely, eccentric,
middle-aged, working-class housewife Mabel Longhetti (Best Actress-nominated
Gena Rowlands)
- the spaghetti breakfast scene with her husband Nick
(Peter Falk) and his construction co-workers
- the scene of Mabel's angry accosting (and flipping
up of her thumb) toward a finely-dressed women walking down an LA
street who literally ignored her when asked the time of day
- Mabel's welcome-home party following institutionalization