A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974  American  drama film written and directed by  John Cassavetes. It focuses on a woman whose unusual behavior leads her husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment and the effect this has on their family. It received two  Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Director. In 1990,  A Woman Under the Influence was selected for preservation in the United States  National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", one of the first fifty films to be so honored.

==Plot [edit] == Los Angeles housewife and mother Mabel loves her construction worker husband Nick and desperately wants to please him, but the strange mannerisms and increasingly odd behavior she displays while in the company of others has him concerned. Convinced she has become a threat to herself and others, he reluctantly commits her to an institution, where she undergoes treatment for six months. Left alone with his three children, Nick proves to be neither wiser nor better than his wife in the way he relates to and interacts with them or accepts the role society expects him to play.

 ==Cast [edit] ==
 * Gena Rowlands as Mabel
 * Peter Falk as Nick Longhetti
 * Fred Draper as George Mortensen
 * Lady Rowlands as Martha Mortensen
 * Katherine Cassavetes as Margaret Longhetti
 * Matthew Laborteaux as Angelo Longhetti
 * Matthew Cassel as Tony Longhetti
 * Christina Grisanti as Maria Longhetti