Unmarried Woman (An)
- Director: Paul Mazursky
- Writer: Paul Mazursky
- Producer: Paul Mazursky; Anthony Ray
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Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. The film 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 her to. 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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Cast & Characters
Jill Clayburgh as Erica;
Alan Bates as Saul Kaplan;
Michael Murphy as Martin;
Cliff Gorman as Charlie;
Patricia Quinn as Sue;
Kelly Bishop as Elaine;
Lisa Lucas as Patti;
Linda Miller as Jeannette;
Andrew Duncan as Bob;
Daniel Seltzer as Dr. Jacobs;
Matthew Arkin as Phil;
Penelope Russianoff as Tanya;
Novella Nelson as Jean;
Raymond J. Barry as Edward;
Ivan Karp as Herb Rowan