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An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, and Cliff Gorman. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress (Clayburgh).
Mar 17, 1978 · An Unmarried Woman: Directed by Paul Mazursky. With Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman. Wealthy Erica Benton from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after Martin, her husband of sixteen years, leaves her for a younger woman.
Candidly addressing issues of sex, intimacy, loneliness, and divorce from an unabashedly feminist perspective, An Unmarried Woman makes the simple but radical assertion that a woman’s most important relationship is the one she has with herself.
An Unmarried Woman. List. Jill Clayburgh is wondrous as a woman who loses her marriage -- only to find herself -- in this acutely observed and lived-in portrait of New York City life....
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Jun 9, 2020 · An Unmarried Woman is a simple, affectionate story. Erica nervously dates, has casual sex, falls in love with a painter (Saul, played with gruff tenderness by Alan Bates), sees Martin try to crawl back, and decides on a course for her future.
"An Unmarried Woman" plays true with all three of its major movements: The marriage, the being single, the falling in love. Mazursky's films have considered the grave and funny business of sex before (most memorably in "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Blume in Love"). But he's never before been this successful at really dealing with the ...
Aug 14, 2010 · In the most acclaimed performance of her career, Jill Clayburgh stars as Erica, a woman who has it all - until her husband walks out and she is forced to reevaluate her life in Paul...
Nov 8, 2010 · Nov. 7, 2010. In the most famous scene in Jill Clayburgh’s most influential movie, her character reacted to the news that her husband wanted to leave her. Ms. Clayburgh’s Erica responded...
Synopsis. 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).
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.
