Nick Longhetti is a
blue-collar worker in Los Angeles.
He’s a construction foreman and his wife Mable has mental instability. They have three young children and
Nick’s mother Margaret helps Nick with the children and Mable. Nick is supposed to come home but he’s
held up at work. Mable goes out to
a bar and she drinks a LOT. Nick
brings the workers home with him and Mable makes spaghetti. This should be a normal activity but Mable isn’t
normal and she makes the workers feel uncomfortable.
At times I wonder if
it’s Mable with the mental problems or is it Nick? There are moments when they are both unstable. Nick reacts with a LOT of yelling. Mable reacts with unusual
behavior. 3* (This movie is OK)
155
min, Drama directed by John Cassavetes with Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred
Draper, Lady Rowlands, Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Labyorteaux, Matthew
Cassel, Christina Grisanti, Geroge Dunn, Mario Gallo, Eddie Shaw, Angelo
Grisanti, Charles Horvath, James Joyce.
Note: Imdb 8.2 out of 10, 95% critic 92%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 4*, Amazon 4.0* out of 5* with 88
reviews,
Special
Note: Filmed in Los Angeles,
California. A restored print was screened
at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on April 26, 2009 as part of the San
Francisco International Film Festival.
Awards: Golden Globe Best Actress Gena
Rowlands, Grand Prix de I’UCC, KCFCC Best Actress Gena Rowlands, National Board
of Review Best Actress Gena Rowlands, National Film Preservation Board, San
Sebastian International Film Festival OCIC Award and Silver Seashell John
Cassavetes, Best Actress Gena Rowlands.
Cassavetes and Rowlands are married. John originally wrote this film as a play but Gena talked him
into making a film. She felt it
was too harrowing and exhausting to play this role night after night. Katherine Cassavetes is John’s mother.
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