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{{Short description|1974 film by John Cassavetes}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = A Woman Under the Influence
| image          = A Woman Under the Influence (1974 poster - retouched).jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[John Cassavetes]]<ref name="afi">{{Cite web |title=A Woman Under the Influence (1974) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/55317 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]}}</ref>
| producer       = Sam Shaw<ref name="afi"/>
| writer         = John Cassavetes<ref name="afi"/>
| starring       = [[Peter Falk]]<ref name="afi"/><br/>[[Gena Rowlands]]<ref name="afi"/>
| music          = [[Bo Harwood]]<ref name="afi"/>
| cinematography = Mitchell Breit<ref name="afi"/>
| editing        = David Armstrong<ref name="afi"/><br/>Sheila Viseltear<ref name="afi"/><br/>Beth Bergeron<ref name="afi"/>
| studio         = Faces International Films<ref name="afi"/>
| distributor    = Faces Distribution<ref name="afi"/>
| released       = {{film date|1974|11|18}}
| runtime        = 146 minutes
| country        = United States<ref name="afi"/>
| language       = English<ref name="afi"/>
| budget         = $1 million
| gross          = $6.1{{nbsp}}million (N. American rentals)<ref>{{cite news|title=All-time Film Rental Champs |work=Variety |date=January 7, 1976 |page=46}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilmdist0000dona/page/292/mode/1up|title=American Film Distribution: The Changing Marketplace|last=Donahue|first= Suzanne Mary|year=1987 |publisher=UMI Research Press |page=292 |isbn=978-0835717762}} Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada</ref>
}}

'''''A Woman Under the Influence''''' is a 1974 American [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] written and directed by [[John Cassavetes]], and starring his wife [[Gena Rowlands]] and close friend [[Peter Falk]]. Rowlands plays a housewife whose unusual behavior leads to conflict with her [[blue-collar]] husband (Falk) and family.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Brody |first=Richard |date=July 2, 2013 |title=Seeing John Cassavetes |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/seeing-john-cassavetes |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref>

The film, Cassavetes' seventh as director, premiered at the 1974 [[New York Film Festival]], before going into wide theatrical release on November 18, 1974. It received two [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations: for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]<ref>{{cite web |date=2011-09-27 |title=Francis Ford Coppola Wins Best Director: 1975 Oscars |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcFwUo_cGiw |website=Oscars.org |via=YouTube}}</ref> and [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (for Rowlands).<ref>{{cite web |title=Gena Rowlands |url=https://www.oscars.org/governors-awards/2015/gena-rowlands |website=Oscars.org}}</ref> Rowlands won a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe Award]] and [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress|National Board of Review Award]] for her performance.

In 1990, the [[Library of Congress]] selected the film for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".<ref name="Registry" />

== Plot ==
Although she is hesitant to do so, Mabel Longhetti, a [[Los Angeles]] housewife and mother who exhibits strange behavior, sends her three young children—Tony, Angelo, and Maria—to spend the night with her mother so she and her husband, Nick, can have a date night. Unfortunately, Nick, who is the foreman of a utility crew, has to cancel to fix a burst water main. Alone and drunk, Mabel goes to a bar and behaves very familiarly to a stranger named Garson Cross, who takes her home. She is almost unconscious by the time they get there, and Garson forces himself on her while she feebly attempts to fight him off.
 
The next morning, a confused Mabel briefly argues with Garson—whom she confuses by calling him "Nick"—before he leaves. Nick brings his 11-member crew to the house for breakfast after their long night, and Mabel makes everyone spaghetti. She is very polite to Nick's colleagues, but she asks several of them for their names, even though they have met before. The meal is superficially pleasant, until Nick snaps at Mabel for making one of his men feel uncomfortable by being overly warm to him, and the men use a phone call from Nick's mother as an excuse to make a hurried exit.

Mabel hosts a play date, but the father of the other children, Harold Jensen, is disturbed by her behavior and reluctant to leave his children alone with her. Nick comes home with his mother, Margaret, to find all of the children half-naked and running wild, with Jensen trying to get his children dressed. He slaps Mabel and gets into a fistfight with an angry Jensen, but Margaret breaks them up, and Jensen leaves with his children.

At his wits' end, Nick calls Mabel's doctor, Dr. Zepp, to evaluate her mental health. Mabel gets worked up, particularly by the presence of her mother-in-law, who calls Mabel a bad wife and an unfit mother when Nick is trying to calm her down. She becomes increasingly detached from reality, and violently resists when Dr. Zepp tries give to her a sedative injection. Convinced she has become a threat to herself and others, Dr. Zepp has Mabel [[Involuntary commitment|involuntarily committed]].

At work, Nick is on edge and yells at his coworkers when they ask about what happened with Mabel. Eddie, Nick's closest friend, remains quiet, but even this rubs Nick the wrong way. He yells at Eddie while Eddie is rappelling down a steep incline, and Eddie falls and gets injured. Afterward, Nick picks up his children from school early to go to the beach and allows them to sip his beer.

Six months later, Nick plans a large surprise welcome home party to celebrate Mabel's return from the hospital. However, his mother points out that this may be overwhelming for her, and Nick has her ask all of the guests who are not family to leave. When Mabel arrives, she is quiet and apprehensive, and no one else knows what to say, either. Nick tries his best to make Mabel feel comfortable, but, when she begins to joke around, he blows up and says they are going to have a normal conversation. Mabel says she does not know how to act without the routine provided by the hospital, which included therapies and medications and [[Electroconvulsive therapy|shock treatments]], and she asks everyone to leave. While the guests get their coats, Mabel begins to dance on the couch while humming the theme from ''[[Swan Lake]]''.

When Nick approaches Mabel, she runs into the bathroom and cuts her hand with a razor. He stops her, and she runs to the living room and climbs back up on the couch. The children, confused and concerned, try to protect Mabel by pushing Nick away from her. Nick slaps Mabel, knocking her to the ground, and then tries to put the children to bed, but they escape and go back to Mabel. Seeming somewhat recovered, Mabel, still bleeding, takes the children upstairs and tucks them in while they express their love for her. She and Nick go back downstairs, where he tends to her hand and they clean up and get ready for bed.

== Cast ==
From the [[American Film Institute]]:<ref name="afi"/>
{{castlist|
* [[Peter Falk]] as Nick Longhetti, Mabel's husband
* [[Gena Rowlands]] as Mabel Longhetti, Nick's wife
* [[Fred Draper]] as George Mortensen, Mabel's father
* [[Lady Rowlands]] as Martha Mortensen, Mabel's mother
* [[Katherine Cassavetes]] as Margaret Longhetti, Nick's mother
* [[Matthew Labyorteaux|Matthew Laborteaux]] as Angelo Longhetti, Nick and Mabel's son
* Matthew Cassel as Tony Longhetti, Nick and Mabel's son
* Christina Grisanti as Maria Longhetti, Nick and Mabel's daughter
* [[George Dunn (actor)|George Dunn]] (credited as O.G. Dunn) as Garson Cross, the man Mabel picks up in a bar
* [[Mario Gallo (actor)|Mario Gallo]] as Harold Jensen, the father of some friends of the Longhetti children
* Eddie Shaw as Dr. Zepp, Mabel's doctor
* Angelo Grisanti as Vito Grimaldi, the member of Nick's crew who goes to the beach with Nick and his children
* Charles Horvath as Eddie, Nick's friend and the member of his crew who gets injured
* James Joyce as Bowman, a member of Nick's crew
* [[John Finnegan (actor)|John Finnegan]] as Clancy, a member of Nick's crew
* Vince Barbi as Gino, the Italian member of Nick's crew, who suggests the baby boom is related to the [[Apollo program|moon landings]]
* Cliff Carnell as Aldo, the member of Nick's crew who wears a denim jacket
* [[Frank Richards (actor)|Frank Richards]] as Adolph, a member of Nick's crew
* [[Hugh Hurd]] as Willie Johnson, the member of Nick's crew who sings
* [[Leon Wagner]] as Billy Tidrow, the member of Nick's crew who has trouble remembering all of his children
* [[Dominique Davalos]] as Dominique Jensen, Harold's daughter
* [[Alexandra Cassavetes|Xan Cassavetes]] as Adrienne Jensen, Harold's daughter
* Pancho Meisenheimer as John Jensen, Harold's son
* Sonny Aprile as Aldo, the party guest who wants to leave because he does not know Mabel
* Ellen Davalos as Nancy, Eddie's wife
* Joanne Moore Jordan as Muriel, the party guest who kisses Nick on the mouth
* John Hawker as Joseph Morton, the member of Nick's crew who spills his spaghetti
* Sil Words as James "Jimmy" Turner, a member of Nick's crew
* Elizabeth Deering as Angela, a relative at the party
* Jackie Peters as Tina, the relative who makes the food for the party
* [[Elsie Ames]] as Miss Hinkley, the Longhetti children's school principal
* [[Nick Cassavetes|Nicholas John Cassavetes]] (credited as N.J. Cassavetes)<!-- John's father, not John and Gena's son --> as Adolph, a friend of the Longhetti family
}}

== Production ==
John Cassavetes was inspired to write ''A Woman Under the Influence'' when his wife [[Gena Rowlands]] expressed a desire to appear in a play about the difficulties faced by contemporary women. His completed script was so intense and emotional that she knew she would be unable to perform it eight times a week, so he decided to adapt it for the screen.<ref name=TCM>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96181/a-woman-under-the-influence#articles-reviews?articleId=138056 |title=A Woman Under The Influence |last=LoBianco |first=Lorraine |date=June 7, 2006 |website=Turner Classic Movies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420145144/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/96181/a-woman-under-the-influence#articles-reviews?articleId=138056 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 }}</ref>

When he tried to raise funding for the film, Cassavetes was told that "No one wants to see a crazy, middle-aged dame."<ref name="TCM" /> Lacking studio financing, he mortgaged his house and borrowed money from family and friends, one of whom was [[Peter Falk]], who liked the screenplay so much that he invested $500,000 in the project.<ref name="TCM" />

The crew consisted of professionals and students from the [[American Film Institute]], where Cassavetes was serving as the first "filmmaker in residence" at their Center for Advanced Film Studies. Working with a limited budget forced him to shoot scenes in a real house near [[Hollywood Boulevard]], and Rowlands was responsible for her own hairstyling and makeup.<ref name="TCM" />

== Release ==
Upon completion of the film, Cassavetes was unable to find a distributor, so he personally called theater owners and asked them to show it. He got it booked at art houses and shown on college campuses, where he and Falk would discuss it with the audience. According to [[Jeff Lipsky (filmmaker)|Jeff Lipsky]], a college student who was hired to help distribute the film: "It was the first time in the history of motion pictures that an independent film was distributed without the use of a nationwide system of sub-distributors."<ref name="TCM" />

The film was screened at the [[San Sebastián Film Festival]], where Rowlands was named Best Actress and Cassavetes won the Silver Shell Award for Best Director, and the [[New York Film Festival]], where it captured the attention of such film critics as [[Rex Reed]]. When [[Richard Dreyfuss]] appeared on ''[[The Mike Douglas Show]]'' with Peter Falk, he described ''A Woman Under the Influence'' as "the most incredible, disturbing, scary, brilliant, dark, sad, depressing movie", and added that he "went crazy. I went home and vomited", which prompted curious audiences to seek out the film capable of making Dreyfuss (who is himself [[Bipolar disorder|bipolar]]) ill.<ref name="TCM" />

=== Home media ===
In 1992, [[Touchstone Pictures|Touchstone]] Home Video released the film on [[VHS]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Woman Under the Influence VHS|asin=6302503841 }}</ref>

On September 21, 2004, [[The Criterion Collection]] released the film—together with ''[[Shadows (1959 film)|Shadows]]'' (1959), ''[[Faces (1968 film)|Faces]]'' (1968), ''[[The Killing of a Chinese Bookie]]'' (1976), and ''[[Opening Night (1977 film)|Opening Night]]'' (1977)—in [[DVD region code|Region 1]] as part of the eight-disc [[DVD]] [[box set]] ''John Cassavetes: Five Films''. Bonus features for the film include an [[audio commentary]] by composer and sound recordist [[Bo Harwood]] and camera operator Mike Ferris, a video conversation between Rowlands and Falk, an essay by film critic [[Kent Jones (critic)|Kent Jones]], and audio and written interviews with Cassavetes from 1975. On October 22, 2013, the box set was re-released on [[Blu-ray]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Criterion Announces October Titles|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=11651|website=Blu-ray.com|access-date=June 8, 2014|date=July 15, 2013}}</ref>

== Reception and legacy ==
On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 86% of 36 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 8.2/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Electrified by searing performances from Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk, ''A Woman Under the Influence'' finds pioneering independent filmmaker John Cassavetes working at his artistic peak."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/woman_under_the_influence/ |title=A Woman Under the Influence |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=2025-02-25}}</ref>

[[Nora Sayre]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' observed: "Miss Rowlands unleashes an extraordinary characterization. [...] The actress’s style of performing sometimes shows a kinship with that of the early [[Kim Stanley]] or the recent [[Joanne Woodward]], but the notes of desperation are emphatically her own. [...] Peter Falk gives a rousing performance [...] and the children are very well directed. But the movie didn't need to be 2 hours and 35 minutes long: there's too much small talk, which doesn't really reveal character. Still, the most frightening scenes are extremely compelling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion."<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/14/archives/a-woman-under-influence-stars-gena-rowlands-as-frenetic-wifethe.html |title='A Woman Under Influence' Stars Gena Rowlands as Frenetic Wife:The Cast |work=The New York Times |date=October 14, 1974 |last=Sayre |first=Nora}}</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film four stars out of four, calling it "terribly complicated, involved and fascinating – a revelation", and saying: "The characters are larger than life (although not less convincing because of that), and their loves and rages, their fights and moments of tenderness, exist at exhausting levels of emotion. [...] Cassavetes is strongest as a writer and filmmaker at creating specific characters and then sticking with them through long, painful, uncompromising scenes until we know them well enough to read them, to predict what they'll do next and even to begin to understand why."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-woman-under-the-influence-1974 |title=A Woman Under the Influence |last=Ebert |first=Roger |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=March 14, 1974 |via=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> He later added the film to his "Great Movies" list, in which he called it "perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes' films."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-a-woman-under-the-influence-1974 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title=A Woman Under the Influence |date=January 14, 1988 |website=RogerEbert.com}}</ref>

''[[Time Out London]]'' wrote: "The brilliance of the film lies in its sympathetic and humorous exposure of social structure. Rowlands unfortunately overdoes the manic psychosis at times, and lapses into a [[melodrama]]tic style which is unconvincing and unsympathetic; but Falk is persuasively insane as the husband; and the result is an astonishing, compulsive film, directed with a crackling energy."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/64768/A_Woman_Under_the_Influence.html |title=A Woman Under the Influence |magazine=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108152211/http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/64768/A_Woman_Under_the_Influence.html |archive-date=January 8, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''[[TV Guide]]'' gave the film four stars out of four, calling it "tough-minded", "moving", and "an insightful essay on sexual politics."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/a-woman-under-the-influence/review/2000093889/ |title=A Woman Under the Influence |website=TV Guide}}</ref>

[[Pauline Kael]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/3/6/the-obsessed-ppauline-kael-reviewed-john/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |title=The Obsessed |date=March 6, 1975 |last=Lacher |first=Irene}}</ref> however, condemned the film as a "didactic illustration of [[R.D. Laing|(R.D.) Laing]]'s version of insanity.”<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/09/the-current-cinema-54 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=The New Yorker |date=December 9, 1974 |last=Kael |first=Pauline}}</ref> [[Stanley Kauffmann]] of ''[[The New Republic]]'' also panned the film in his 1974 review, writing: "To me this film is utterly without interest or merit".<ref>{{cite book |title=Before My Eyes: Film Criticism & Comment|last1=Kauffmann|first1=Stanley |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1980 |page=96 |isbn=978-0060122980}}</ref> [[John Simon (critic)|John Simon]], noted for his frequently caustic and disparaging reviews, called the film "dreadful."<ref>{{cite book |title=Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Films|last1=Simon|first1=John |publisher=Crown Publishers Inc. |year=1982 |page=169 |isbn=978-0517546970}}</ref>

In [[Sight & Sound|''Sight and Sound''{{'}}s]] 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, the film placed 59th in the directors' poll and 144th in the critics' poll.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Votes for A Woman under the Influence (1974) {{!}} BFI|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb2414d/sightandsoundpoll2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621034951/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb2414d/sightandsoundpoll2012|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 21, 2016|access-date=2021-03-25|website=www2.bfi.org.uk}}</ref> In 2015, the [[BBC]] named ''A Woman Under the Influence'' the 31st greatest American film ever made.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films |title=The 100 Greatest American Films |website=[[BBC]] |date=July 20, 2015}}</ref>

In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", one of the first fifty films to be so honored.<ref name=Registry>{{Cite news|last1=Gamarekian|first1=Barbara|date=1990-10-19|title=Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles to National Film Registry|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/19/movies/library-of-congress-adds-25-titles-to-national-film-registry.html|access-date=2020-05-15|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|website=Library of Congress|access-date=2020-05-15}}</ref>

=== Accolades ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[47th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[John Cassavetes]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 |title=The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-date=September 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901233914/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Gena Rowlands]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Belgian Film Critics Association]]
| colspan="2"| [[Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)|Grand Prix]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[32nd Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Motion Picture – Drama]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/woman-under-influence/ |title=A Woman Under the Influence |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama]]
| Gena Rowlands
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| rowspan="2"| John Cassavetes
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Motion Picture]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Kansas City Film Critics Circle|Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| Best Actress
| Gena Rowlands
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://kcfcc.org/kcfcc-award-winners-1970-79/ |title=KCFCC Award Winners – 1970-79 |publisher=[[Kansas City Film Critics Circle]] |date=December 14, 2013 |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1974|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{draw|6th Place}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1974/ |title=1974 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Gena Rowlands
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Film Preservation Board]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Film Registry]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref name=Registry/>
|-
| [[1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Gena Rowlands
| {{Runner-up}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1974 |title=1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |publisher=[[New York Film Critics Circle]] |access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]]
| Silver Seashell
| John Cassavetes
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 
|-
| [[Silver Shell for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Gena Rowlands
| {{won}}
|-
| OCIC Award (Honorable Mention)
| rowspan="2"| John Cassavetes
| {{won}}
|-
| [[26th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Drama – Written Directly for the Screen]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |publisher=[[Writers Guild of America Awards]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |access-date=June 6, 2010}}</ref>
|}

== Restoration and preservation ==
The world premiere screening of a restored print of the film was held at the [[Castro Theatre]] in San Francisco on April 26, 2009, as part of the [[San Francisco International Film Festival]]. Gena Rowlands attended the premiere and spoke briefly. The restoration was performed by the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]], with funding provided by [[Gucci]] and [[The Film Foundation]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zinko |first=Carolyne |date=June 1, 2009 |title=Influential woman Gena Rowlands |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Influential-woman-Gena-Rowlands-3230778.php |access-date=August 20, 2024 |work=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1974]]
* [[Mental illness in film]]
* [[Bipolar disorder]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
{{Cite book|last=Carney |first=Ray |author-link=Ray Carney |title=American Dreaming: The Films of [[John Cassavetes]] and the American Experience |location=Berkeley |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1985 |isbn=978-0520050990}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title}}
* {{tcmdb title|id=96181}}
* {{AFI film|55317}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/woman_under_influence.pdf'' A Woman Under the Influence''] essay by [[Ray Carney]] at [[National Film Registry]]
* [https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Film_Legacy.html?id=deq3xI8OmCkC ''A Woman Under the Influence''] essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the [[National Film Registry]], A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 709–710. 
* [http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/340-a-woman-under-the-influence-the-war-at-home ''A Woman Under the Influence: The War at Home''] an essay by [[Kent Jones (writer)|Kent Jones]] at the [[Criterion Collection]]
* [http://therumpus.net/2011/09/all-naked-all-the-time-gertrude-stein-and-john-cassavetes/#more-87842 "All Naked, All The Time: Gertrude Stein and John Cassavetes" – a close reading of the film with comparisons to Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha"]

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