Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'A Woman Under The Influence'

Posted at 10:30 AM Nov 20, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Welcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming.

And while yesterday saw the Olsen Twins fulfill millions of guys' perverted sister-on-sister fantasies, today we see an independent classic get reimagined as a silent, short arthouse film inspired by a glorified clown.

Today's entry is:

A Woman Under The Influence
The Actual Story: Arguably John Cassavetes' most gripping work, or at least featuring the highest level of dramatic gravitas he ever invoked from wife/frequent leading woman Gena Rowlands and regular (if unusual) leading man Peter Falk. Rowlands is fierce as a mother and homemaker who was always a bit odd, but whose spirited idiosyncratic tendencies are driven toward ostensible insanity by the tension between her individual instincts and upholding her matriarchal responsibilities.
Cable-Info Bar Synopses: "A working man's wife goes from quirky to mad."
What Their Descriptions Would Have You Believe: In a brief but moving short film, Rolands conveys an entire spectrum of human emotion with one simple crease of her upper lip. It is considered by many to be a landmark melange of Marcel Marceau's muted influence and the emotional pull of '70s Renaissance filmmaking,

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