Husbands is devoid of story but filled with a present-tense vitality and emotional honesty
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08/28/09
Husbands (1970)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:12
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: John Cassavetes continues to delve the depths of the human condition with this story of three men who embark on a journey to cope with the death of their best friend. Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie... [More]
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Judith Lowry
Director: John Cassavetes
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Reviews for Husbands
Cassavetes' most dangerous and unfiltered expression of masculine anxiety -- a raw, deliberately off-putting masterpiece.
08/25/09
as a time capsule rendition of men being boys, it certainly has an inherent intrigue, but it is not one of Cassavetes' strongest films
08/25/09
This is a Cassavetes kind of mid-life crisis: they indulge their worst, most selfish instincts as they attempt to outrun their fears of mortality and frustrations of compromised lives.
08/17/09
The history of American male aggression and insecurity comes filtered through Cassavetes, Falk and Gazzara’s bravado. Better than authentic, they’re fascinating.
08/05/09
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11/01/07
Most of Cassavetes's cinema verite films as a director are invariably accused (and with some justification) of being rambling, self-indulgent, and unfocused, but it is precisely those elements that make his best work so affecting and memorable.
08/30/06
Intense, moving Cassavetes classic.
07/06/06
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06/24/06
An overlong improv piece that when it's not tedious or startling settles on showing the emptiness of suburban life for three married New York commuters.
11/26/05
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10/09/05
Largely dismissed in 1970, Husbands is not one of the helmer's best films, but a flawed Cassavetes is still worth watching and this mid-career work offers a poignant, utterly frank and harsh look at men's innermost anxieties and insecurities.
07/01/05
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06/03/05
It is almost unbearably long. It is a narrative film without any real narrative, and although it is a movie about three characters, those characters are seen almost exclusively in terms of their limiting relationship.
05/09/05
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10/30/04
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03/27/04
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05/24/03
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11/07/02
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11/01/02
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