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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302697049
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302697042
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 23, 1994
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 12909
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1992
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In 1992, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow--heretofore the Lunt and Fontanne of Hollywood on the Hudson--went public with a media-saturated battle over Allen's affair with Farrow's adopted daughter. Only a few months later, Allen released this film, starring himself and Farrow acting out a virtually identical plot line: an unhappy marriage begins to crumble when the husband strays with a much younger woman (in this case, one of his students, played by Juliette Lewis). It turned out to be one of Allen's most lacerating comedies, a story about the fragility of relationships and the foolishness of older men seeking to recapture their youth with younger women. It features strong performances by Judy Davis, Liam Neeson, and director Sydney Pollack, as a friend of Allen's who chucks his longtime wife for an aerobics instructor, thus planting seeds of marital dissolution in all of his friends' heads. Husbands and Wives provided an uncanny peek into Allen's image of himself and his personal life, despite all of his protestations to the contrary. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Deserves a slightly better reissue
This is my favorite of all of the films that Allen directed in the '90s, so my expectations for this disc were a bit high, and not quite satisfied.
Both widescreen (1.85:1) and fullscreen (1.33:1) versions of the film are available, and can be selected on the disc's opening screen. The sound mix is fine, but this was taken from a very grainy print. "Husbands and Wives" isn't a beautiful film and much of its photography is dark and/or softly lit, but I find it hard to believe that a clearer ... Read More
Rating: - Soon ye will be in an even bigger debacle
Husbands and Wives was released in 1992, and it is the last movie Woody Allen made with Mia Farrow--their unlucky thirteenth. It was released just in time to benefit from intense interest in the courtroom stand off between Woody and Mia over Woody's relationship with Mia's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi. Not to say that this was a calculated career move, but the film did better at the box office than any of his other films. It offered uncanny parallels into the real life drama, but it also differed in many respects. ... Read More
Rating:  - Woody Allen's Scenes from a Marriage.
Complicated relationships (Annie Hall) and the romantic folly of May-December relationships (Manhattan) are familiar themes in Woody Allen's movies. His films confront the subject relationships with a depth not typically found in Hollywood releases. Allen's 1992 film, Husbands and Wives is a perfect example. Shot in cinéma-vérité-style, the film tells the "bleakly nihilistic" story of two long-married couples, Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis), and Gabe (Allen) and Judy (Mia Farrow). When Jack and ... Read More
Rating: - Is Such Thing as Perfect Relationship Possible? How to Find and to Keep It?
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 funny moments and dialogs (it is Allen after all) but it has disturbing and sad scenes, too.
When Jack and Sally (Sidney Pollack and Judy Davis) announce that they're separating, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy (Allen ... Read More
Rating: - Husbands & Wives
Woody Allen's 1992 film "Husbands and Wives" was released around the time we first heard the words Soon-Yi, which is ironic considering the subject matter of the film. "Husbands and Wives" is billed as a comedy, but is more of a drama. There are a few jokes, but there's nothing incredibly funny in the film. The movie is told like a documentary, featuring interviews with the characters and handheld cinematography. Allen and Mia Farrow play Gabe and Judy Roth, a couple who have been married for ten years and think everything ... Read More
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302697049
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302697042
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 23, 1994
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 12909
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1992