starring
Gena Rowlands , Peter Falk
This ambitious and harrowing drama focuses on a Los Angeles housewife whose sense of identity disintegrates as the film progresses. Mabel has subjugated herself to her husband's domineering love and the needs of her children, but is cracking up under the strain this imposes. Her husband Nick, loving but ignorant, copes with her growing eccentricities by filling her life with friends, relatives and contrived jollity, thus unwittingly precipitating the crisis. Mabel is stunningly acted by Gena Row lands and Peter Falk excels as the gruff and aggressive Nick in this characteristically powerful study of a mind in torment by director John Cassavetes.
Produced by SAM SHAW
Written and directed by JOHN CASSAVETES