Diary of a Mad Housewife

She is the only sane one in the movie. Her husband is a truly stupid, arrogant and abusive fool so dense he isn't aware of his own insecurity.

The film heroes who involve me most aren't saints, or even rebels. They're everyday people who are accosted by wrong done to them and face their predicament: Frank Perry's film is about a stunningly tolerant young woman who has by some means gotten herself married to the most arrogant imbecile in Manhattan.

I feel I am being generous giving 'Diary' a seven. The first half of the movie reminded me of the trash of 'Looking For Mr.

Jonathan Balser is a pretentious man. A social climber, he is usually seen at the right parties in Manhattan where he is trying to pass himself for someone he is not.

This remarkable film seems to be unavailable, and I can't imagine why. Frank Perry was a fine director who never seemed to strike out, and gave us several memorable films in the 'seventies.

With the feminist movement on the rise, they obviously had to make a movie about a woman in an abusive relationship, and "Diary of a Mad Housewife" does a good job with it. Tina Balser's (Carrie Snodgress, RIP) husband Jonathan (Richard Benjamin) is the biggest jerk in the world.

"Mad Housewife" is a great satire on the state of male female relationships in the late 60's.Carrie Snodgrass plays a educated yuppie who enters into an affair with novelist Frank Langella as an escape from her infantile husband, played by Dick Benjamin.

I first, checked out this movie on you-tube.. it seemed like there were parts of it cutout, it spastically went from one scene to another of no relation, i was thinking "what the hell".

This 1970 film directed by Frank Perry features remarkable performances from Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress and Frank Langella in a sharp, incisive look at contemporary relationships in an upwardly mobile NYC told from the point of view of the female protagonist who's more exasperated and masochistic than mad. Snodgress deservedly received an Oscar nomination; her reactions are terrific, and as her husband, Richard Benjamin gives an effectively over-the-top performance that succeeds in making a caricature a believable person.