Husbands

Husbands (1970)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (28 reviews)

  • 83% of users liked it
    (2,034 ratings)

John Cassavetes wrote and directed this look at three middle-aged men thrown into a midlife crisis when one of their mutual friends dies. Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter Falk) and Gus (John Cassavetes) attend the funeral of their buddy David Rowlands (Stuart Jackson); all three are starting to… More

PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
John Cassavetes
Genres
Drama, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 8, 1970 Limited
On DVD
Aug 18, 2009
Columbia Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Brody, New Yorker

    Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    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.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    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.

  • Philip French, Observer [UK]

    Highly uneven, painfully drawn-out, deeply sincere, wildly misogynistic and at times agonisingly tedious. It is also intermittently brilliant, with moments of piercing honesty.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jonathan H


    I know Cassavetes' style is an acquired taste, and pushes the boundaries of cinematic narrative devices (thereby attracting lots of detractors), but I find his work to generally be sharply observational and endlessly fascinating. Husbands (his first of many collaborations with… More

  • Tim S


    I am a huge Cassavettes fan and am the first one to say that this film is not for everyone. There are sections of this film (like most of his films) that people will find boring and way over the top, but it's something I find enduring and really enjoy watching. This is one of the… More

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