Domestic Difficulties (1916)
- Directed by
- Bud Fisher
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man promises his wife he will stay home, but he goes drinking with his friend instead. When he comes back drunk, his wife is waiting and she physically throws him out the window.
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What happens
Domestic Difficulties is a 1916 silent animated short film featuring Mutt and Jeff. The film is one of the earliest animated adaptations of Bud Fisher's comic strip. The film features a humorous depiction of spousal abuse. In the film, Mutt's wife is having a night out. She makes Mutt promise to stay in their apartment, but he instead heads to a bar with Jeff. He returns intoxicated and fails to enter the apartment unnoticed. His irritated wife is waiting for him. She beats up Mutt and then defenestrates him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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