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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... 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 (Peter Falk of COLUMBO), and Gus (Cassavetes) gather together to pay their respects and decide, on a whim, to travel to London to get away from the pressures of work and family. Upon arriving, they gamble and bring three call girls back to their hotel room; these actions unwittingly present them with individual life issues with which to contend. As usual with Cassavetes's films, there is no traditional narrative; rather, there is a series of seemingly insignificant exchanges that need to be processed moment to moment for the film to deliver its greatest impact. Superficially a comedy, HUSBANDS contains enough serious questions to keep it dramatic, making for a hysterical, challenging, and enlightening work. Collaborators Cassavetes, Gazzara, and Falk interact with an honesty enhanced by their being friends in real life, which allows their characters to emerge with truths inherent to these relationships. [More]

Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Judith Lowry

Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Judith Lowry

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: John Cassavetes
Screenwriter: John Cassavetes
Producer: Al Ruban, Sam Shaw

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Release:

Aug 18, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • Keep Case
  • Special Edition
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Mono - English
  • Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

Audio Commentary:

  • 1. Marshall Fine, Author

Featurette:

  • 1. The Story of Husbands: A Tribute to John Cassavetes
 
 
 
 

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Husbands is devoid of story but filled with a present-tense vitality and emotional honesty

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/28/09
Paul Brenner
Paul Brenner
Filmcritic.com

Cassavetes' most dangerous and unfiltered expression of masculine anxiety -- a raw, deliberately off-putting masterpiece.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
08/25/09
Sean Burns
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

as a time capsule rendition of men being boys, it certainly has an inherent intrigue, but it is not one of Cassavetes' strongest films

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
08/25/09
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

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.

Full Review Source: Seanax.com | comment Comment
08/17/09
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seanax.com

The history of American male aggression and insecurity comes filtered through Cassavetes, Falk and Gazzara’s bravado. Better than authentic, they’re fascinating.

Full Review Source: New York Press | comment Comment
08/05/09
Armond White
Armond White
New York Press

No review available.

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11/01/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/30/06
Michael Scheinfeld
Michael Scheinfeld
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Intense, moving Cassavetes classic.

comment Comment
07/06/06
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
N/R

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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out

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.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/26/05
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

No review available.

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10/09/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

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.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

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06/03/05
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/09/05
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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10/30/04
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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05/24/03
Channel 4 Film

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11/07/02
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

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11/01/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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