I feel I am being generous giving 'Diary' a seven. The first half of the movie reminded me of the trash of 'Looking For Mr. Goodbar'. Basically, you have a thoroughly annoying, egotistical husband (played by the usually affable Richard Benjamin) married to poor Carrie Snodgress. Although not a crowd pleaser, Ms. Snodgress registers some sort of strange appeal with me in the role.
You can hardly blame Carrie for her adulterous affair with the very young and handsome Frank Langella, but his character is what makes this the man-hating flick that it is, for Langella is his own selfish bastard. At one point, Carrie's character accuses the Langella character of being 'gay'.
My big kick in seeing this film was the appearance of 'The Alice Cooper Band' and their music sounds great, but visually, very little was shot of Alice and his rock band, which was a bit of a disappointment to me.
The ending is an incongruous 'happy' or 'philisophiical' view of life, as it seems to me that it would take a miracle to save this couple's marriage. When I think of 'philosophical' happy endings, I can only refer people to the film 'Alfie', which is in many ways a fine movie, but the dishonest ending of Alfie even glimpsing 'what it's all about' is optimism at its most phony and rings hollow as does this film's finish.
In another curious note, both this film and Diane Keaton's 'Looking For Mr. Goodbar' are rather hard to find, if nonexistent, on DVD. 'Diary' was vaguely entertaining. 'Goodbar' is simply revolting.
You can hardly blame Carrie for her adulterous affair with the very young and handsome Frank Langella, but his character is what makes this the man-hating flick that it is, for Langella is his own selfish bastard. At one point, Carrie's character accuses the Langella character of being 'gay'.
My big kick in seeing this film was the appearance of 'The Alice Cooper Band' and their music sounds great, but visually, very little was shot of Alice and his rock band, which was a bit of a disappointment to me.
The ending is an incongruous 'happy' or 'philisophiical' view of life, as it seems to me that it would take a miracle to save this couple's marriage. When I think of 'philosophical' happy endings, I can only refer people to the film 'Alfie', which is in many ways a fine movie, but the dishonest ending of Alfie even glimpsing 'what it's all about' is optimism at its most phony and rings hollow as does this film's finish.
In another curious note, both this film and Diane Keaton's 'Looking For Mr. Goodbar' are rather hard to find, if nonexistent, on DVD. 'Diary' was vaguely entertaining. 'Goodbar' is simply revolting.