Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Acting
Woodward's volcanic restraint—every glance holds decades of rage.
Direction
Cates frames claustrophobic interiors like emotional prisons.
Writing
Stewart Stern's dialogue cuts with surgical suburban precision.
Director
Gilbert Cates
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