Carrie Snodgress started her career with minor appearances on television. She was seen in ‘Easy Rider,’ in an uncredited role which marked her film debut. This was followed by a credited performance in ‘Rabbit, Run.’
She bagged in two ‘Golden Globe Award’ and two ‘Laurel Awards’ for her phenomenal performance in ‘Diary of a Mad Housewife,’ where she played the lead. She also earned an ‘Academy Award’ and a ‘BAFTA Award’ nomination for the same.
She took a hiatus and returned to acting with ‘The Fury,’ in 1978. Some of her other noteworthy roles in films include ‘In the Light of the Moon,’ ‘Across the Tracks,’ ‘Pale Rider,’ ‘Wild Things,’ ‘Blue Sky,’ ‘Murphy’s Law,’ ‘A Night in Heaven,’ amongst various others.
Wyatt and Billy, two freewheeling motorcyclists and drug smugglers decide to travel cross-country through America to find some kind of spiritual truth. In their journey, which sadly ends in tragedy, they ingest drugs, come face to face with bigots, hatred, violence, and other travelers looking for free lifestyles.
When a greedy mining company terrorizes a group of small-town gold miners into giving up their territory, a mysterious man named ‘Preacher’ arrives to protect them.
Based on a novel of the same name, The Fury is a supernatural thriller film which tells us the story of Peter, a former CIA agent, whose son Robin is a psychic. Their lives take a turn after Ben Childress, Peter’s old colleague, kidnaps Robin, as he is studying people with supernatural powers. He hopes that he will be able to develop their talents, to use them as weapons. Peter soon teams up with a teenager with special abilities to rescue his son.
When well-liked guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo, is suddenly accused of rape by two students, Kelly Van Ryan and Suzie Toller, he hires sleazy lawyer Ken Bowden to defend him. After the girls admit to lying to get revenge on him and settle the case, police detective, Ray Duquette, suspects that they are scamming Kelly's wealthy family together.
8 Seconds is a biographical sports drama film which tells the story of Bull rider Lane Frost, who, despite facing several struggles in his life, sets out to become the world rodeo champion at the 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Championship in Oklahoma.
Hank Marshall is a nuclear engineer and a Major in the US Army, who is involved with top secret nuclear testing projects. However, his life is extremely complicated due to his mentally unstable and bipolar wife Carly. For his next project, he is sent to Alabama, where the base is under the control of Vince Johnson. While Carly continues her regular behavior, Hank begins to face problems in his latest project.
After her fiance, Robert, disappears on the night before her wedding, Louise, a librarian starts spending the rest of her life taking care of her old and abusive father who is wheelchair-ridden. She soon sinks further and further into insanity, believing her delusions to be real.
Set in an alternative America where African Americans and White Americans have reversed roles, this drama thriller film tells the story of Louis Pinnock, a struggling white worker with a loving family, who works in a chocolate factory. While delivering a package for his African American CEO Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur, after which he not only gets beaten up, but also ends up losing his job. In order to get justice for himself, he decides to kidnap his boss.
Faye Hanlon, a professor at a small Florida college, gets into a fervent affair with her failing student, Rick, who is a male stripper at 'Ricky the Rocket.' Faye who is struggling in her personal life dealing with her unemployed scientist husband, Whitney, and going through sexual frustrations, gets swayed away which results in a fling with Rick. However, she soon realizes she is at the crossroads. She has to make a choice: To continue with Rick or to save her marriage with a distant yet loving husband.
Joan, along with Richard, her new husband, attend a Halloween party while Joan’s son Christopher is being watched by a babysitter Linda. Meanwhile, Joan’s ex-husband escapes from the asylum, with the help of another inmate, and vows revenge against his wife for putting him away.
Tommy is a good looking rock star, but he hasn’t lost his virginity yet. A classmate’s mother decides to help him with this.
Carrie Snodgress Awards
| Diary of a Mad Housewife | Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical | 1971 |
| Diary of a Mad Housewife | Most Promising Newcomer - Female | 1971 |
