Cunningly deploying his sharp cast in and around superbly utilized New York locations, and lavishing the action with a fabulous Pino Donaggio score, De Palma scored one of his biggest critical and commercial successes with this controversial, sardonic, and harrowing shocker. Angie Dickinson stars as a neglected married woman whose impulsive dalliance violently disrupts the lives of her psychiatrist Michael Caine, her son Keith Gordon, and upwardly-mobile hooker Nancy Allen.