Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called it "terribly complicated, involved and fascinating - a revelation."
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The restoration was done by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Gucci and the Film Foundation.
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John Cassavetes was inspired to write A Woman Under the Influence when his wife Gena Rowlands expressed a desire to appear in a play about the difficulties faced by contemporary women.
The book is largely composed of movie reviews, ranging from her famous review of Last Tango in Paris to A Woman Under the Influence, but it also contains a longer essay entitled "On the Future of Movies" as well as a book review of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, by fellow The New Yorker dance critic Arlene Croce.
Imaoka's film, according to Sharp, plays like a softcore version of John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence (1974) with a dark sense of humor.
Wonder Woman | Pretty Woman | Driving under the influence | Woman's Hour | Kiss of the Spider Woman | The Bionic Woman | Police Woman (TV series) | Police Woman | No Woman, No Cry | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Woman's Day | Scent of a Woman (1992 film) | Red-Headed Woman | Celtic Woman | Wonder Woman (TV series) | Woman | woman | Jesus and the woman taken in adultery | Woman's Home Companion | The Woman in White | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Scent of a Woman | Oh, Pretty Woman | Kiss of the Spider Woman (film) | driving under the influence | Woman of the Year | The French Lieutenant's Woman (film) | One Woman's Insanity | No Other Woman | Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex |
The album title itself is perhaps a reference to a line of dialogue spoken by the character of Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) in the 1974 John Cassavetes post-modern drama A Woman Under the Influence.
After his playing career ended, Wagner appeared in small acting roles, prominently in John Cassavetes' 1974 film A Woman under the Influence and as a member of a Depression-era barnstorming team in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976).