Husbands and Wives

Pee-wee Herman's Big Adventure is an oddball of a movie, that has no existing wit or barely any memorable moments.... Full review

On a recent documentary I saw on Woody Allen's career, with him being interviewed, he said of this film that it was one of only a small number of times in his career he felt he carried over what he... Full review

A married couple, Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack), tell their best friends--another married couple named Gabe (Woody Allen) and Judy (Mia Farrow)--that they are separating. This news throws Gabe and Judy into a tailspin. It makes them reexamine... Full review

This is one of Woody Allen's greatest films, but it took me two viewings to fully appreciate it. I first saw it in 1992 at the theatre upon its initial release with my then-girlfriend, when I was 30 and she... Full review

Woody Allen makes good, very good, and excellent films.Husbands and Wives is a very good film with excellent performances. It is not a comedy but rather a dramedy that explores marriages and relationships of four main characters. It has several... Full review

Many look at this as an autobiography of the real downfall of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen's long tenure as husband and wife. The ugly battle doesn't ruin the film for me,but increases it's power. Woody Allen really experiments with... Full review

I have always been a fan of Woody Alan and this movie really expresses the essence of his personal and constant recurring confrontation with the meaning of life. His pursuit of a significant context in human relationships always drives him... Full review

LOVE WOODY.. THIS IS AN ALMOST... YET VERY ENJOYABLE TYPICAL WOODY. WONT BE SORRY IF YOU LIKE HIM I GIVE IT 3 STARS... Full review

Granted this is not Woody's funniest film, but it delivers the goods. Like most of Woody's work, it plays out like a photographed play (he's not a highly visual filmmaker), but if you've seen any of his other films you... Full review

I am surprised that so few people mention that this film is so obviously inspired by Bergman's television series - which was later edited into a film.As Scenes from a Marriage is perhaps my favourite Bergman film, it makes sense... Full review

while the film is shot like a documentary, Allen camera doesn't observe the film's marital chaos as much as it seemingly instigates it.....Thank God for Judy Davis, playing cinema's most fascinating neurotic..... ... Full Review

The film is the most brutally honest of Woody's films. The story and the acting are both excellent, but in the end, it is a downer. Schmidt, by the way, was pretty stiff in the film. ... Full Review

Though there are many very funny elements here, "Husbands and Wives" is not strictly a comedy. Allen and Farrow are devastated - particularly Farrow, who carries on about it so much that she makes everyone else more uncomfortable than they were to begin with. ... Full Review

" Husbands and Wives" may always be remembered as the painfully funny prelude to Woody Allen's divorce from reality, a Freudian slip-up in which the rattled filmmaker wrestles with his lost ardor for Mia Farrow. And nobody seems to have better articulated Farrow's terrible anxiety than Woody. ... Full Review

T he news is not that Woody Allen loves his 21-year-old quasi-ward. The spirit of "the earlier, funny films" (as Allen once jokingly referred to his older work) seems to have returned. ... Full Review

Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:56 PM | By Melinda Henneberger OK, here's a question: Years before the sex-scandal press conference or the chunky pearls , do political wives see their husbands differently than the rest of us see the... ... Full Article

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... but I watched it again 3 months ago, and found the characters to all be annoying and, for the most part, dull. I still think it's a good movie, though... I was watching "Take the Money and Run" last ... Full Article

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Since the uncanny parallels between Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives and his recent real-life travails are making moviegoers snicker and groan, the neurotic auteur is working overtime to avert further Freudian slips in his next film, Manhattan Murder Mystery ,... ... Full Article

One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, Husbands and Wives opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack) announcing to their best friends, the Roths, that they are splitting up. ... Full Article