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Husbands
Directed by
John Cassavetes
PG-13
1970
2h 11m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.1
68%
79%
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A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.
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Cast of Husbands
Ben Gazzara
Harry
Peter Falk
Archie Black
John Cassavetes
Gus Demetri / Director / Writer
Jenny Runacre
Mary Tynan
Jenny Lee Wright
Pearl Billingham
Noelle Kao
Julie
John Kullers
Red
Meta Shaw Stevens
Annie
Leola Harlow
Leola
Delores Delmar
The Countess
Eleanor Zee
Mrs. Hines
Claire Malis
Stuart's Wife
Peggy Lashbrook
Diana Mallabee
Eleanor Cody Gould
Singer
Sarah Felcher
Sarah
Bill Britten
Arthur Clark
Gwen Van Dam
Gwen
John Armstrong
"Happy Birthday" Singer
Charles Gaines
Antoinette Kray
"Jesus Loves Me" Singer
Lorraine MacMartin
Annie's Mother
Carinthia West
Susanna
Joseph Boley
Minister
Judith Lowry
Stuart's Grandmother
Edgar Franken
Ed Weintraub
Joseph Hardy
Shanghai Lil
Fred Draper
David Rowlands
Stuart Jackson
Gena Rowlands
Party Guest
Marilyn Clark
Robert Dahdah
Crowd (uncredited)
Harry Fielder
Hippy at Roundhouse (uncredited)
Rick Lester
Man on the Train (uncredited)
Anne O’Donnell
Nurse (uncredited)
Rhonda Parker
Margaret (uncredited)
Ellen Stretton
K.C. Townsend
Barmaid (uncredited)
Gena Wheeler
Nurse (uncredited)
Al Ruban
Producer
Husbands Ratings & Reviews
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
[Husbands] serves up heavy dosage of humor and tragedy and an impressive honesty rarely captured in American movies. Cassavetes' scripting and direction are quite realistic and often brilliant.
Unseen Films
Nathanael Hood
The film is too overlong, too dreary, too unfocused for anything to have any real impact.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Some astute observations are lost in an avalanche of endless scenes and a cascade of tiresome and self-absorbed characters.
Bay Area Reporter
Terry Alan Smith
[Cassavetes is] really a medical examiner: vivisecting human relationships and recording his findings on celluloid.
Los Angeles Free Press
John Mahoney
As a whole, the film is sabotaged by self-indulgence, denied discipline, without selection or purpose. maintained at a shrill peak until, like the lampshade buffoon at that drunken party, it simply exhausts itself, falls asleep in mid-sentence.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... a personal, provocative and uncompromising vision and a daring journey into the psyche of American men.
Filmcritic.com
Paul Brenner
Husbands is devoid of story but filled with a present-tense vitality and emotional honesty
Philadelphia Weekly
Sean Burns
Cassavetes' most dangerous and unfiltered expression of masculine anxiety -- a raw, deliberately off-putting masterpiece.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
as a time capsule rendition of men being boys, it certainly has an inherent intrigue, but it is not one of Cassavetes' strongest films
New York Press
Armond White
The history of American male aggression and insecurity comes filtered through Cassavetes, Falk and Gazzara's bravado. Better than authentic, they're fascinating.
TV Guide
Michael Scheinfeld
Most of Cassavetes's cinema verite films as a director are invariably accused (and with some justification) of being rambling, self-indulgent, and unfocused, but it is precisely those elements that make his best work so affecting and memorable.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Steve Crum
Intense, moving Cassavetes classic.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An overlong improv piece that when it's not tedious or startling settles on showing the emptiness of suburban life for three married New York commuters.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Largely dismissed in 1970, Husbands is not one of the helmer's best films, but a flawed Cassavetes is still worth watching and this mid-career work offers a poignant, utterly frank and harsh look at men's innermost anxieties and insecurities.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
It is almost unbearably long. It is a narrative film without any real narrative, and although it is a movie about three characters, those characters are seen almost exclusively in terms of their limiting relationship.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
John Cassavetes' Husbands is disappointing in the way Antonioni's Zabriskie Point was. It shows an important director not merely failing, but not even understanding why.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This 1970 film is John Cassavetes's most irritating, full of the male braggadocio and bluster that mar even some of his best work. But it's impossible to dismiss or shake off entirely.
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