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Husbands and Wives (1992)

Starring: Woody Allen, Blythe Danner Director: Woody Allen Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Woody Allen, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Juliette Lewis
  • Directors: Woody Allen
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: April 16, 2002
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000062XE6
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,599 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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In 1992, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow--heretofore the Lunt and Fontanne of Hollywood on the Hudson--went public with a media-saturated battle over Allen's affair with Farrow's adopted daughter. Only a few months later, Allen released this film, starring himself and Farrow acting out a virtually identical plot line: an unhappy marriage begins to crumble when the husband strays with a much younger woman (in this case, one of his students, played by Juliette Lewis). It turned out to be one of Allen's most lacerating comedies, a story about the fragility of relationships and the foolishness of older men seeking to recapture their youth with younger women. It features strong performances by Judy Davis, Liam Neeson, and director Sydney Pollack, as a friend of Allen's who chucks his longtime wife for an aerobics instructor, thus planting seeds of marital dissolution in all of his friends' heads. Husbands and Wives provided an uncanny peek into Allen's image of himself and his personal life, despite all of his protestations to the contrary. --Marshall Fine

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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/27/2008 Run time: 108 minutes Rating: R

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5.0 out of 5 stars Woody puts the "Fun" in dysFUNctional, June 10, 2002
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He's not happy with her, their friends aren't happy with each other, the friends break up, he flinging with his aerobics instructor, she, trying to indulge in an editor, while everybody self-consciously tells the viewers what they will not tell their (ex-)spouses. We see manipulation posing as truth, vulnerable facades imitating intimacy, lust mimicking passion, and discover, in the end, that perhaps the only true desire in a Woody Allen movie is to dodge happiness & to take pleasure in the misery of knowing that it probably wouldn't have worked out anyhow.

Confused yet?

I can't imagine anybody still in the "honeymoon" stage of a First Great Love appreciating this movie. For those scarred by years of relationship campaigning, much of Allen's view may ring all-too-true. I won't say how many times I saw myself, my wife, and ex-lovers plastered against the screen.

Throughout the movie, individuals and couples long for intimacy, for lasting passion, for refreshment, but end up settling for comfort, manipulation, and denial. I wanted to scream. I hoped, hopelessly, for hope--this is, after all, a Woody Allen Movie--but was left, in the end, with Gabriel (literally "God's Hero") telling viewers that love, romance, and passion can only exist as a neurotic and fleeting figment of experience.

Damned if I'm willing to settle for that. And perhaps that's the great strength of this movie. It could, after all, be a satire, not about mid-life-crisis-men seeking youth through young lovers, but showing, in the crassest relief, how barriers and little deceits ultimately lead to destruction and misery in relationships. And maybe that's where the hope lies, in learning to be honest in a way that none of Allen's characters can be, not even with themselves.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Woody's Masterpiece., February 20, 2005
I have been a major Woody Allen fanatic since I was 10 years old, but only now, after my third viewing of "Husbands and Wives" did I fully comprehend the importance of this film within his oeuvre. It's home movie feel and documentary style provide subtle integrity for its frames. The acting and the characterization are superb. This may be the best cast he ever assembled with producer, and non-actor, Sydney Pollack even putting forth a remarkable performance. The audience will care about all of the players and wonder exactly what will happen in the end.

Allen denied repeatedly that "Husbands and Wives" was autobiographical but it would be impossible for it not to have been given the events of his life. Here we see him play a writer who, just like Allen, is cherished by fans for his "funnier early works." One wonders whether his affair with Soon-Yi had begun at the time of its production and what exactly his interactions with Farrow were like.

Allen was clearly working through many of his own personal dilemmas and that is exactly why the film is so authentic and believable. It will touch in some way most who see it as sometimes life really does imitate art.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wince and Love It, July 8, 2004
Never has a movie about relationships hit so many nerves on so many levels. It takes guts to view this film with an open mind. I takes familiarity with relational boredom and heartache to understand it completely.

Woody Allen delves into the minds and dysfunctional lives of two and then four couples with the deftness of a ninja in "Husbands and Wives." Rarely have I seen such candor in depiction of the seven year itch. It is a place in time that will be familiar to many couples given the opportunity for honesty and will likely create interesting if not brutal debate in the most secure of unions.

The hand held camera used in many of the scenes are not for those prone to motion sickness. Nonetheless, it creates an intimacy and urgency that grant the film credence at its most passionate moments.

Each of the characters is someone that the viewer probably knows in situations that they would never discuss, leaving him both baffled and sympathetic.

I highly recommend the film to those viewers able to be honest enough and possibly brave enough to face their most intimate relational demons.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 'Cerebral' Woody Allen at his best!
I have seen every one of Allen's films multiple times and 'Husbands and Wives' stands out as one of his most successful on every level. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Jessica Van Doren

5.0 out of 5 stars Searing and underrated
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One of Allen's two or three best films, Husbands and Wives looks at two couples' relationships with a caustic and unsparing eye, creating characters... Read more
Published 1 month ago by One-Line Film Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Childish adults don't work Woody!
Husbands and Wives is a film written, directed, and starring Woody Allen. I like Allen's insane writing but I just hated this 1992 drama with a passion. Read more
Published 5 months ago by ADRIENNE MILLER

4.0 out of 5 stars Deserves a slightly better reissue
This is my favorite of all of the films that Allen directed in the '90s, so my expectations for this disc were a bit high, and not quite satisfied. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Robert Buchanan

4.0 out of 5 stars Soon ye will be in an even bigger debacle
Husbands and Wives was released in 1992, and it is the last movie Woody Allen made with Mia Farrow--their unlucky thirteenth. Read more
Published 13 months ago by C. CRADDOCK

5.0 out of 5 stars Woody Allen's Scenes from a Marriage.
Complicated relationships (Annie Hall) and the romantic folly of May-December relationships (Manhattan) are familiar themes in Woody Allen's movies. Read more
Published 20 months ago by G. Merritt

4.0 out of 5 stars Is Such Thing as Perfect Relationship Possible? How to Find and to Keep It?

Woody Allen makes good, very good, and excellent films.

Husbands and Wives is a very good film with excellent performances. Read more
Published on April 8, 2007 by Galina

4.0 out of 5 stars Husbands & Wives
Woody Allen's 1992 film "Husbands and Wives" was released around the time we first heard the words Soon-Yi, which is ironic considering the subject matter of the film. Read more
Published on January 27, 2007 by Joshua Miller

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Woody Allen's best
Husbands and Wives ranks up there in my mind with Broadway Danny Rose and Deconstructing Harry as one of Woody Allen's best movies. Read more
Published on November 14, 2006 by R. Attorri

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Better Allen Films
When first watching this film, it was akin to a voyeur, a fly on the wall, a third party witnessing the painful yet swift destruction of a marriage. Read more
Published on October 26, 2006 by C. Middleton

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