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Director Frank Perry’s 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife stars Richard Benjamin as the greedy, egotistical, abusive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who repels his put-upon housewife Tina (Carrie Snodgress), who has a fling with big-headed writer […]
Director Francis Coppola’s lovely 1986 romantic comedy Peggy Sue Got Married was nominated for three Oscars, including one for Kathleen Turner as unhappy middle-aged Peggy Sue, a 43-year-old mother and housewife, who faints when she […]
Producer-director Lewis Gilbert follows his 1983 hit Educating Rita with another hit version of a theatre play by Willy Russell, with another actress on Oscar nominated form and Russell again providing his own screenplay (as […]
Doris Day and James Garner are attractively paired as the housewife star of TV adverts and the obstetrician husband she overlooks, in Norman Jewison’s funny 1963 romcom and media send-up The Thrill of It All. […]
Co-writer/ director Michael Radford’s outstanding 1983 Film on Four World War Two wartime romantic drama is lit up by Phyllis Logan’s peerless performance as Janie, a desiccated Scottish farmer’s wife whose passions are inflamed when […]
Writer-director David Seltzer’s talented 1988 comedy drama teams Sally Field with Tom Hanks. Double Oscar-winner Field packs a punch as Lilah Krytsick, a New Jersey housewife with a burning ambition to be a stand-up comedienne. […]
Director Susan Seidelman’s 1985 hit neo screwball comedy Desperately Seeking Susan is a delicious, offbeat romantic comedy adventure starring Rosanna Arquette as the fed-up housewife Roberta Glass who investigates a puzzling series of personal ads […]