Husbands

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Husbands

PG-13,

1970,

2h 18m,

Comedy/

Drama

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68%

34 Reviews

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1,000+ Ratings

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68%

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34 Reviews

79%

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1,000+ Ratings

The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing basketball and nights drinking, and eventually by ditching their families altogether for a sudden getaway to London, where they face the temptation to cheat on their wives for the first time.

Phil Strassberg

Arizona Republic

Aug 18, 2021

[Husbands] serves up heavy dosage of humor and tragedy and an impressive honesty rarely captured in American movies. Cassavetes' scripting and direction are quite realistic and often brilliant.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

May 3, 2013

Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Sep 28, 2012

4/5

Cassavetes was a masterful anti-Hollywood director who probed human failings until he reached right under the skin.

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Justine Smith

Vague Visages

Jun 6, 2024

Realism, in the cinema of John Cassavetes, has an edge of madness, pain and neurosis. Cassavetes aestheticizes pain and anxiety to represent the truth of his reality.

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Nathanael Hood

Unseen Films

Jun 10, 2020

3/10

The film is too overlong, too dreary, too unfocused for anything to have any real impact.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jun 7, 2020

2/4

Some astute observations are lost in an avalanche of endless scenes and a cascade of tiresome and self-absorbed characters.

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Harry R

Apr 21, 2018

A very dark comedy/drama that leaves you feeling empty, but I am sure that despite its random narrative it is one that all husbands would identify to some level with. Also a cultural timepiece of the expectations of husbands and their lives.

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Poe W

Apr 15, 2018

I feel the movie itself was well done and it had a somewhat unique premise. The major drawback was these guys are the kind of guys whose general demeanor I hate. I guess the creators succeeded in holding my attention, but I wish I wouldn't have wasted the time with this movie because I strongly dislike those guys, particularly cassavetes's character.

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Poe L

Mar 10, 2017

At nearly two and a half hours, Husbands is a story without a story, depicting three men practically entirely in their very unhealthy friendship.

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Synopsis

The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing basketball and nights drinking, and eventually by ditching their families altogether for a sudden getaway to London, where they face the temptation to cheat on their wives for the first time.

Director: John Cassavetes
Producer: Sam Shaw, Al Ruban
Screenwriter: John Cassavetes
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 15, 2010
Runtime: 2h 18m

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