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Husbands and Wives

Woody Allen (Actor, Director), Blythe Danner (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 603 ratings
IMDb7.5/10.0
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Genre Drama, Comedy
Format Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor Juliette Lewis, Ilene Blackman, Timothy Jerome, Liam Neeson, Lysette Anthony, John Doumanian, Rigsby, Gordon, Woody Allen, Blythe Danner, Ron Rifkin, Jeffrey Kurland, Judy Davis, Schmidt, Benno, Sydney Pollack, Rebecca Glenn, Nick Metropolis, Cristi Conaway, Mia Farrow See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 48 minutes

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A tale of two married couples confronted with change who are forced to re-evaluate universal questions about marriage, fidelity, romance, trust and love. Blending his comedic and dramatic styles, Woody Allen revisits themes from his past films--relationships, commitment, and the complexities of thehuman heart.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1, 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2227746
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Woody Allen
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Woody Allen, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Juliette Lewis
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000062XE6
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best of Woody’s films
    Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2024
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    It’s my favorite of his catalog. He said in an interview that it’s his favorite too. ‘nuff said!
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  • Jessica Van Doren
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 'Cerebral' Woody Allen at his best!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2009
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    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.

    This is not a film for those who stopped watching Allen after 'Hannah and Her Sisters' or who think the 70s was his best decade. This is for the mature Allen fan who can appreciate his bitter wit as well as some very fine acting by Judy Davis (one of Allen's three favorite actresses of all time), and Sydney Pollack. For once Mia shows the audience some true rage as parts of this film were acted the same week that she found out about Allen's affair with Soon-Yi.

    I recently saw a documentary interviewing Allen on PBS and he said that he views 'Husbands and Wives' as one of his top five most successful films. That's coming from the horse's mouth.

    For those who complain about the hand-held nature of shots, etc. keep in mind that he did all of this to disorient the viewer, just as the couples are disoriented about the nature of their relationships.

    I love the fact that he exploits such clichés as the older man-younger woman relationship and turns it on its head. This is a masterpiece for those who are ready to explore the 'darker side of the spectrum' of his films. Once you get to like it though, it will become a part of you as none of his others films could. Also, love the title song, 'What is this thing called love' by Leo Reisman & his Orchestra (from one of Woody's own records).
    Enjoy!
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  • GollumLovesThePrecious
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great/Layered/Complex/Funny/Genius Woody Allen
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2020
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    This movie is hilarious....love the scene with a shirtless Liam and Sydney it's hilar (and I must say, ever since I was a kid, I've absolutely loathed Sydney Pollack, the vibe he gives rubs me the wrong way BUT this movie, he hit a home run).....and the car fight scene is hilarious....seen people who said it was disturbing.....it's hilarious due to the layers/complexity between the lines of what's going on (of what you know is going through his head)......this movie shows the genius Woody has.....if you've been married or divorced before, this film is a must watch....well, maybe not if you're Amish or say Hutterite but then again, doubt they'd be on Amazon looking for Woody Allen flicks.....but I guess crazier things have happened.....like Woody essentially marrying "his daughter"....but that's a whole other discussion
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  • Debbie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting ending
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2023
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    At first thought just another Woody Allen movie, usual cast
    Was pleasantly surprised.
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  • B. Marold
    4.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Portrait of Relations between Men and Women. Buy It!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2005
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    `Husbands and Wives' is writer / director Woody Allen's last movie before his breakup with Mia Farrow, and, of course, the last in a long series of movies in which Farrow is his costar. As noted in more than one news article in 1992, when this movie was released, it is remarkably predictive of the Allen Farrow breakup and even on the issue over which they would split.

    I saw this movie soon after it was released in 1992 and I have not looked forward to viewing it again in order to give a review of this DVD edition. The movie is probably not one of Allen's very best among his later comedies such as `Crimes and Misdemeanors', `Bullets over Broadway', and `Mighty Aphrodite', but it includes what may be some of his most disturbing scenes since `Interiors'. One scene in particular between costar Sydney Pollack and Lysette Anthony is about as emotionally disturbing as all the murder victim scenes from an entire season of CSI rolled into one. This scene really shows off Allen's writing talent. A physically brief scuffle between a middle-aged intellectual and his intellectually lightweight young paramour, becomes a viscerally painful image of a breakdown of relations between two people. Allen's talent is even plainer when we see the girl trapped in the situation where she must stay with the man until he deigns to take her home from a party probably in the darkest Hamptons, far from home base in Manhattan.

    Allen has never been the most polished technician with his filmmaking, but he almost always has a major talent behind the camera. In this case, it is Carlo Di Palma. In spite of this, the coordination between the actors business and the camera's point of view is remarkably like a series of `Candid Camera' shots. I almost looked for a credit for the person responsible for being sure there was a lampshade obscuring part of the camera's view in all interior shots. The editing was also explicitly done in a somewhat choppy manner, giving some sense of a documentary style. It was quite clearly not done as a `Documentary' in the same style as `Zelig', but all the technical aspects of editing and cinematography were distinctly raw. Since I have seen enough Allen movies to know this must have been intentional and not due to a lack of skill, I have mixed feelings over whether this choppyness contributes anything to the experience of the story. I am quite certain that unlike the documentary feel of some parts of `Bananas', it does nothing to add any humor to the story. If anything, it heightens the feeling of awkwardness surrounding the principal characters' actions.

    As usual, I find myself disagreeing with Peter Travers' blurb from his review in `Rolling Stone' where he uses the phrase `Fiercely funny' in describing the film. In fact, I did not once break out into a laugh as I watched this movie, although the fact that I was watching it alone may have had a lot to do with that fact. But, I have been known to giggle or laugh at least four or five times in the course of an average `The West Wing' episode, even those I may have seen two or three times. (And who said politics isn't funny.)

    In more ways than one, this film seems to hark back to the days when Allen split his time between film making and writing short stories for `The New Yorker'. Allen's character is a professor of writing and literature at Columbia, and is credited with having several short stories published in that very same `New Yorker' magazine. Allen's character is also biographical in many other ways, not the least of which was the quip that he probably could not survive for more than 48 hours off the island of Manhattan. (I did crack a smile at this line.)

    As usual, Manhattan street scenes and apartments are the primary venues for almost all the shots in the movie. There is a short detour to a middle class home in Brooklyn, but most scenes are in what are probably very expensive apartments on the Upper East Side.

    This film is definitely not as interesting or as funny as, for example, `Crimes and Misdemeanors', and yet it is possibly even more powerful emotionally, in spite of the fact that the other movie had a homicide and this film only has bruised emotions. This is even less a comedy than the intentionally seriocomic `Melinda and Melinda'.

    I would not recommend this movie to a non-Woody Allen fan, but for people who like and respect his work, this may be one of his most important films.
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  • R. J. Marsella
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Challenging and Difficult Film
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2004
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    Woody Allen displays his more serious and darker take on relationships in this very mature look at marriage and mid-life crisis. The movie is painfully realistic and is presented as a docu-drama that allows the viewer to evesdrop on the characters most intimate conversations. The actors are all superb. I found Sydney Pollack's performance as a husband who uses a trial separation from his wife (Judy Davis) as a pretext to pursue an affair with a younger woman and then has a change of heart as his eyes gradually open to the absurdity of what he's done , particularly strong. His actions initiate a chain of events that results in Allen and Mia Farrow's characters questioning their own relationship which results in turmoil in their lives as well.

    There are scenes that are so well written and acted that they are riveting. We watch these somehow familiar circumstances because we recognise these characters as people we know.

    This is a very serious film with very few true comedic moments so if you're seeking a few yucks look elsewhere.
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  • elivano
    5.0 out of 5 stars J'adore ce film qui est une excellente analyse du couple ...
    Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2018
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    J'adore ce film qui est une excellente analyse du couple. Au fait, Woody Allen a-t-il déjà fait un mauvais film ???
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  • cinefil50
    5.0 out of 5 stars Attention , grand chef d'oeuvre sur la vie de couple !
    Reviewed in France on March 5, 2018
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    Il est stupéfiant de retrouver cette distribution si parfaite , dans ce film qui a déjà plus de 25 ans , et quelle tristesse , si l'on songe , en comparaison , à certaines distributions hasardeuses ou bien moyennes des Allen les plus récents ...
    Il est certain aussi qu'Allen acteur apportait beaucoup de caractère aux films d'Allen réalisateur !

    Le scénario est prodigieusement bien fait : c'est construit avec un soin maniaque et minutieusement agencé .
    C 'est filmé en souplesse , les enchainements sont fluides , les séquences sont montées comme une mécanique de haute précision .
    L 'idée des interviews croisées , qui se répondent , fonctionne merveilleusement bien et enrichit en permanence les personnages.

    Les dialogues sont brillants mais , surtout , explorent , avec la plus grande finesse et la plus grande lucidité , les ambiguités des humains , leurs erreurs et revirements , leurs ridicules , leur aveuglement , leurs frustrations , leur progression douloureuse dans la voie d'une meilleure compréhension mais aussi d'une plus grande générosité , dans les rapports de couple , entre femmes et hommes .

    Ce film n'est pas seulement celui d'un cinéaste virtuose et très intelligent , c'est aussi une oeuvre pleine de compassion pour nous autres pauvres humains , si profonde et grave , sous le vernis du brio social et intellectuel .
    Je pense sincèrement que des couples enfoncés dans leur crise pourraient regarder ce film , qui suggère les voies de possibles issues et est aussi une leçon de tolérance .

    Allen , le Maître .
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    5.0 out of 5 stars デパルマ
    Reviewed in Japan on June 5, 2020
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  • jamessmurf
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Woody Allen movie
    Reviewed in Australia on December 14, 2019
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    Loved the performances of the main actors in this film, serious and darkly funny!! If you love Woody's film this is well worth watching :).
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  • Film Buff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Woody Allen doesn't come better than this
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2013
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    Husbands and Wives (1992) must be the summit of Woody Allen's achievements as a director. I know conventional opinion says Manhatten (1979) remains his very best and I agree it is a marvelous picture, but Husbands and Wives rates alongside it because of its equally sophisticated script taking in a broader canvas of characters than usual. The subject remains the same - love, relationships, marriage, do we ever actually know the partner we are hooked up with? How do we make sense of our lives which are in a constant state of flux? Manhatten focuses mainly on the one character played by Woody and remains throughout a bitter-sweet comedy with the other characters slightly pushed into the background. Husbands and Wives however foregrounds its four main protagonists equally. It's definitely not a comedy though there are some very funny one-liners. Its richness comes with its embracing of all emotions involved in human relationships and how they are filtered through a group of skillfully-drawn, beautifully played characters who although belonging to that upper-middle class milieu so central to all of Woody's films, are in fact so different as people. The film kicks off with Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis) announcing their amicable break-up to their best friends, Gabe and Judy (Woody and Mia Farrow) and follows through the effects this has on all the characters. This could so easily have degenerated into soap opera. The fact that it doesn't comes down to Woody's distancing of us from the characters via shooting the film as a fly-on-the-wall documentary. Carlo di Palma's camera remains hand-held throughout (dizzyingly-so in some scenes!) and an interviewer/narrator (Jeffrey Kurland) is deployed to give each character a stab at describing their feelings and emotions. Often the same events are described twice through the different perceptions of each character involved and I challenge anyone not to emphasize with many of the odd emotions which are sparked off throughout.

    With a wonderful script Pollack, Davis, Farrow and Woody all play flawlessly - their characters coming across as fully-rounded, believably vulnerable and touchingly complex. The warmth is extended to other characters who gate-crash and divide the attentions of our central quartet - Rain (Juliette Lewis), a precocious student who seduces her literature professor Gabe, and then Michael (Liam Neeson) a romantic magazine editor who Judy introduces to Sally. The only character who doesn't seem to get Woody the director's approval is Sam (Lysette Anthony), a young aerobics instructor who diverts Jack. Her ditziness might be funny, but it is condescending humour coming from a writer/director who seems to accept those in his own upper middle class and no others. Where Rain and Michael get scenes which firmly establish their characters, Sam is reduced to a hippy, tofu-eating, astrological dimwit who isn't given a chance. It is the only flaw in an otherwise beautifully observed, wonderfully poignant, piercingly perceptive inquisition into that thing called love. The fact that the film's release coincided with Woody's real-life break-up with Farrow adds a layer of irony over proceedings.

    This is a region 2 DVD designed for the UK market which looks great and sounds just as well. There are no extras, but at this price it's a mandatory purchase.
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