Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Mar 5, 1978 Wide
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A New York wife learns about the satisfactions of single life in this landmark 1970s "woman's film." Unlike her dysfunctional friends, vibrant Erica (Jill Clayburgh) seems to have it all: a nice Upper East Side home, a well-adjusted teenage daughter (Lisa Lucas), a job at a Soho art gallery, and a loving husband, Martin (Michael Murphy). Erica falls apart, however, when Martin leaves her for a younger woman. Finally, at her female therapist's urging, Erica ventures out into the world of
Mar 5, 1978 Wide
Jan 10, 2006
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Jill Clayburgh received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing an ordinary woman who goes through divorce and identity crisis in this quintessential New York movie that was championed by the feminist movement in the 1970s.
Presents a credible single scene.
...the movie is ultimately undone by a thoroughly dated, anachronistic aura...
Beautifully conveys one woman's journey from dependent security to independent self-confidence.
Jill Clayburgh is outstanding as a woman who is suddenly divorced from her husband of 16 years. She struggles with her new freedom and has to learn to trust men again and how to live for herself. This movie has been done a hundred times since it release in 1978 so it loses some of its original thunder. It still has
January 2, 2009Super Reviewer
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