Diary of a Mad Housewife
It can happen to any married woman anywhere, anytime...it happened to Tina.
A darkly comic portrait of a trapped housewife caught between an emotionally abusive marriage and a sadistic affair, exploring the desperation and self-deception of a woman seeking escape.
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
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