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Erica Benton (Clayburgh) is a rich New York City an affluent Manhattan housewife who thinks she's HappilyMarried – right up until her husband Martin (Creator/MichaelMurphy) confesses to having an affair with a younger woman. After she becomes [[TitleDrop an unmarried woman]], Erica goes on a SliceOfLife journey to find herself. Eventually, she finds love with a sensitive artist named Saul (Creator/AlanBates).
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Erica Benton (Clayburgh) is a rich New York City housewife who thought she was HappilyMarried right up until her husband Martin (Michael Murphy) confessed that he was having an affair with a younger woman. After she becomes [[TitleDrop an unmarried woman]], Erica goes on a SliceOfLife journey to find herself. Eventually, she finds love with a sensitive artist named Saul (Alan Bates).
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Erica Benton is a rich New York housewife who thought she was HappilyMarried right up until her husband Martin confessed that he was having an affair with a younger woman. After she becomes [[TitleDrop an unmarried woman]], Erica goes on a SliceOfLife journey to find herself. Eventually, she finds love with a sensitive artist named Saul.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Averted. Erica talks to her therapist about missing sex.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Not shown, but Erica describes this to her therapist.
* AmicableExes: Kind of. Martin continues to support Erica financially and would like for them to remain friends. Erica accepts the money, but does not want to be friends with him anymore. She later decides to go back to school so she'll be able to support herself.
* BigApplesauce: During the BigRottenApple era
* TheCasanova: Charlie
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: It's the '70s free love era, after all.
* FourGirlEnsemble: Erica and her circle of friends.
* HappyMarriageCharade: Only on Martin's part. Before she found out about the affair, Erica genuinely thought everything was great.
* TheMistress: Martin's is a younger woman he met at Bloomingdale's. [[TheGhost She never appears onscreen.]]
* NameOne: After Patti says she never wants to get married, she challenges Erica to name three happily married couples. Erica thinks and then says she'll get back to her.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Erica tells her therapist about the first time she got her period. Later, one of Erica's friends gets emotional and someone asks her if she's getting her period.
* OpenMindedParent: Erica, though the movie considers her normal. It's the '70s.
* PantyShot: We get to see Jill Clayburgh in her panties a whole lot.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Patti is rude to Saul when they first meet, but later apologizes and admits she was just upset about her father being replaced.
* SexIsGood: It's the '70s, okay?
When it was originally released, ''An Unmarried Woman'' was on the cutting edge of the feminist zeitgeist and was highly acclaimed for it, netting Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Jill Clayburgh in the leading role. Now it's an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and seems to have been all but forgotten.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Averted. Erica talks to her therapist about missing sex.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Not shown, but Erica describes this to her therapist.
* AmicableExes: Kind of. Martin continues to support Erica financially and would like for them to remain friends. Erica accepts the money, but does not want to be friends with him anymore. She later decides to go back to school so she'll be able to support herself.
* BigApplesauce: During the BigRottenApple era
* TheCasanova: Charlie
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: It's the '70s free love era, after all.
* FourGirlEnsemble: Erica and her circle of friends.
* HappyMarriageCharade: Only on Martin's part. Before she found out about the affair, Erica genuinely thought everything was great.
* TheMistress: Martin's is a younger woman he met at Bloomingdale's. [[TheGhost She never appears onscreen.]]
* NameOne: After Patti says she never wants to get married, she challenges Erica to name three happily married couples. Erica thinks and then says she'll get back to her.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Erica tells her therapist about the first time she got her period. Later, one of Erica's friends gets emotional and someone asks her if she's getting her period.
* OpenMindedParent: Erica, though the movie considers her normal. It's the '70s.
* PantyShot: We get to see Jill Clayburgh in her panties a whole lot.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Patti is rude to Saul when they first meet, but later apologizes and admits she was just upset about her father being replaced.
* SexIsGood: It's the '70s, okay?
