Smart, sensitive and packed with quality performances.
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03/23/09
Husbands and Wives (1992)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:34
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce... [More]
Starring: Blythe Danner, Liam Neeson, Juliette Lewis, Lysette Anthony
Director: Woody Allen
Reviews for Husbands and Wives
Top CriticWith excellent performances (Davis and Pollack in particular), it's his finest film since Hannah and Her Sisters.
02/09/06
Top CriticExcellent performances from Pollack and Davis in particular, make this one of Woody's finest of the 90s.
03/23/09
Top CriticWhat makes the film truly memorable turns out to be Judy Davis's spiky performance as a perfectionist determined not to let her divorce undo her tidy little world.
11/06/01
Top CriticHusbands and Wives is a comedy that explores serious themes — or perhaps a drama that is at times hysterically funny.
06/15/02
Top CriticThis is one of Woody Allen's best films to date, combining some of his finest serious writing about relationships, in the style of Hannah and her Sisters, with humor that's all the more effective thanks to its dark, edgy context.
07/30/03
Top CriticThought of as Woody Allen's artistic comeback. A wonderful exploration of relationships.
01/08/03
...A far more complex and satisfying essay on the subject of infidelity than the overpraised Hannah and Her Sisters.
03/31/02
No review available.
08/22/03
Allen is in top form here.
01/01/00
Bleak yet strangely compelling look at modern romance.
05/06/06
No review available.
11/23/07
It doesn't suffer from the compulsive tidiness of some of Allen's later movies -- the juices are flowing, the hysteria is closer to the surface -- and in this looser, more volatile atmosphere his extraordinary cast gets to soar.
10/18/08
With its relationship angst and Lolita temptations, Husbands and Wives hits embarrassingly close to Allen's home. But it also hits its comic target.
01/01/00
The acting is top notch.
11/13/03
Ten years ago, Husbands and Wives played second fiddle to Woody Allen's all-media split with Mia Farrow.
04/28/02
Too bad that the Allen-Farrow scandal erupted before this movie for it's one of Allen's best serio comedies with wonderful performances (particularly Judy Davis), but questions of life imitating art or art imitating life are inevitable while watching it
10/26/06
Examines the ways the soul of a marriage can be sustained or shattered by change and conflict.
08/23/02
No review available.
07/03/07
One of [Woody Allen's] greatest films.
11/08/04
Latest News for Husbands and Wives
August 14, 2008:
Woody Allen Looks Back With EW 
As he prepares to launch his latest feature, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen has taken a few minutes to revisit a dozen of his career highlights with Entertainment Weekly. More...
May 26, 2008:
Sydney Pollack dies aged 73
Academy Award-winning director, producer and actor, Sydney Pollack, dies aged 73. More...
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