Husbands and Wives
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Mia Farrow, Woody AllenDirector: Woody Allen
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Husbands and Wives
Movie Review: One of the Better Allen Films
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
The timing of this film was uncanny and seemed planned; Allen knew exactly what he was doing, the protagonist falling for a younger woman, something that middle-aged men do at times.
Allen casted his wife, Ms. Farrow, in all his important films to date, and with Husbands and Wives, her last really major film, thus she never starred or took part in another Allen film again.
The reason for this fall out, in "real life", Allen had fallen in love with his step daughter and began an affair. He eventually married her and to present time, they are still married, and appear to be doing well.
Ms. Farrow's career, however, simply disappeared and she has not made a film of worth since her divorce from Allen and the subsequent scandal.
This is an original film, a look into human nature, particularly man's nature, proving their rise in virility at a time of doubt and middle age, when the hair recedes, the belly grows and younger women appear attractive because they need to prove their worth as a "male". Similar to an old lion, the King of the Pride is exiled because he is too weak to run the show.
The cast is remarkable. Judy Davis as Sally as usual, portrayed a gritty, aggressive self absorbed woman, leaving her husband, Jack, Sidney Pollack, for a "new aged" man; Michael Gates, played with true honesty by Liam Neeson, does a wonderful job as the rebound. Pollack's performance is perfect, as the "mid-life-crises" male looking for love in all the wrong places. The "party scene" where he drags his young "girlfriend" out of his friend's party because of his embarrassment, her stupid, unrelated exposition on astrology, to his "intellectual" friends, brought him to the edge:(the scene outside the house was Oscar material) a truly wonderful performance by Pollack, a great director but also a damn good actor.
In the end, though truly original, Husbands and Wives is an honest look at modern relationships, our weaknesses, our desires, and the consequences of those desires.
Husbands and Wives is one of the better Allen films of his career.
Summary of Husbands and Wives
HUSBANDS AND WIVES - DVD MovieIn 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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