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Diary of a Mad Housewife

"It can happen to any married woman anywhere, anytime...it happened to Tina."

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Audience
R 1970 · 1h 35m
Drama, Comedy
Starring Carrie Snodgress · Richard Benjamin · Frank Langella
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Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

Theatrical
Aug 10, 1970
Box Office
$6.1M
Director
Frank Perry
Writer
Eleanor Perry
Producers
Ronald H. Gilbert, Frank Perry
Studio
Frank Perry Films Inc., Universal Pictures
Keywords
love triangle new york city adultery infidelity housewife marital problem bored housewife abusive marriage
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C
Carrie Snodgress
Tina Balser
R
Richard Benjamin
Jonathan Balser
F
Frank Langella
George Prager
F
Frannie Michel
Liz Balser
P
Peter Dohanos
Samuel Keefer
K
Katherine Meskill
Charlotte Rady
L
Leonard Elliott
M. Henri
H
Hilda Haynes
Lottie
D
Donald Symington
Pediatrician
L
Lester Rawlins
Dr. Linstrom
A
Alley Mills
Women's Lib Girl
A
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
P
Peter Boyle
Man in Group Therapy Session
J
Ja'net DuBois
Vera
G
George Loros
Malcolm
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