
Erica is unmarried only temporarily, in that her successful, wealthy husband of 16 years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. This movie shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, si... (Full plot summary below)
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Erica is unmarried only temporarily, in that her successful, wealthy husband of 16 years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. This movie shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else's personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him, because he expects this of her. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly "available" woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIn An Unmarried Woman, Paul Mazursky’s realist look at the dissolution of a marriage, Jill Clayburgh brought its effects to near-harrowing life. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMazursky'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 complexities and following them through. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyIt is high comedy of a sharp, bitter kind, and Michael Murphy is fine as the weasel husband named Martin, but Miss Clayburgh is nothing less than extraordinary in what is the performance of the year to date. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenPaul Mazursky's excellent screenplay presents Jill Clayburgh in a most demanding role where she is torn between conflicting forces following the surprise confession of weak-willed husband Michael Murphy that he has fallen in love with another woman. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyMazursky applies a light and graceful touch to matters of intimate agony. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkSet in the New York milieus Mazursky knows so well, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN has some great insights and is superbly acted by all involved. The director populates the film with his usual, very real and attractive modern characters, but you may think it cops out in the end. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Robert MartinMazursky finds the politics in the wrinkles of human behavior, rather than contriving behavior to suit his politics. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatBeautifully conveys one woman's journey from dependent security to independent self-confidence. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrA New York movie with a California soul—superficially gritty but soft in the center, in a silly est sort of way. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...the movie is ultimately undone by a thoroughly dated, anachronistic aura... |