Smart, sensitive and packed with quality performances.
Husbands and Wives (1992)
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Fresh:34
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Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce... Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating. Allen's use of a hand-held camera and jump-cuts adds immediacy to a brilliant display of ensemble acting. Pollack delivers an Oscar-worthy performance. [More]
Starring: Blythe Danner, Liam Neeson, Juliette Lewis, Lysette Anthony
Starring: Blythe Danner, Liam Neeson, Juliette Lewis, Lysette Anthony, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis
Director: Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Robert Greenhut
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Reviews for Husbands and Wives
In all respects, this is a full meal, as it deals with the things of life with intelligence, truthful drama and rueful humor.
Excellent performances from Pollack and Davis in particular, make this one of Woody's finest of the 90s.
Allen's conception of character is as banal and shallow as ever, but the lively performances of some of his actors and the novelty of the film's style make this more watchable than many of his features.
It doesn't suffer from the compulsive tidiness of some of Allen's later movies -- the juices are flowing, the hysteria is closer to the surface -- and in this looser, more volatile atmosphere his extraordinary cast gets to soar.
This last waltz between America's most prestigious film couple has a tone of muted regret, not confession or sensationalism.
Too bad that the Allen-Farrow scandal erupted before this movie for it's one of Allen's best serio comedies with wonderful performances (particularly Judy Davis), but questions of life imitating art or art imitating life are inevitable while watching it
With excellent performances (Davis and Pollack in particular), it's his finest film since Hannah and Her Sisters.
This is one of Woody Allen's best films to date, combining some of his finest serious writing about relationships, in the style of Hannah and her Sisters, with humor that's all the more effective thanks to its dark, edgy context.
Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives is a very fine, sometimes brutal comedy about a small group of contemporary New Yorkers.
Woody Allen's latest movie, Husbands and Wives, is one of his best films and is a fascinating look at the breakup of two people.
Thought of as Woody Allen's artistic comeback. A wonderful exploration of relationships.
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