this be peter falk film . period . i be 10 year old when this film come out while i be already a film maven at the time . of course neither my parent nor i saw this film when it come out and but i be in love with the typeface of it ad and the aura that this be an important film . okay and 34 year later i have finally see the film have never see any cassavetes direct film previously . he a hack and overall . zero sense of timing and editing . gena performance reminds me too much of dustin hoffman stint in rain man represent technically on par but entirely one note . a tom cruise stole rain man and falk take the cake for this film . i be annoy with gena performance and really throughout it seem well suit for awakening ( blecch . ) . it not all her fault represent she a basket case from first scene to last . we never find out why . but falk character seem real and be perform wonderfully by falk a a seriously flaw man . shave off at least an hour ( an editor need . ) and and this would have be an arrest portrait not of a woman under the influence but of a simple and cro magnon and man come to grip with a wife who doesn not work and yet can not deal with her three kid and her husband long hour of work . i would rather remember cassavetes for the dirty dozen or rosemary baby . he would have be a good director have he snip his own tendency for excess a he amply demonstrate with this film . bob .