What 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.
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11/06/01
Husbands and Wives (1992)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:34
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.4/10
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
Smart, sensitive and packed with quality performances.
03/23/09
Husbands and Wives is a comedy that explores serious themes — or perhaps a drama that is at times hysterically funny.
06/15/02
This 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
Thought 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
Top CriticThe 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
With excellent performances (Davis and Pollack in particular), it's his finest film since Hannah and Her Sisters.
02/09/06
No review available.
07/03/07
One of [Woody Allen's] greatest films.
11/08/04
One of Allen’s most criminally underappreciated films.
03/05/02
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