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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 […]
Pauline Collins was Oscar nominated as Best Actress for the 1989 film version of Willy Russell’s stage show Shirley Valentine and won the Best Actress award at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Evening Standard British […]
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 […]