
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonOne of Cassavetes’s greatest and most daring films. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis 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, and the performances—as is usually the case in his work—are potent. |
| Turner Classic Movies OnlineSean Axmaker... a personal, provocative and uncompromising vision and a daring journey into the psyche of American men. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteThe history of American male aggression and insecurity comes filtered through Cassavetes, Falk and Gazzara's bravado. Better than authentic, they're fascinating. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinJohn Cassavetes’ films ostensibly explore what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real, but his conception of stark, unvarnished reality sometimes feels awfully artificial. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyLargely 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. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyUnyielding and underdeveloped, like a semi-interesting draft for something John Updike decided against writing. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawA brilliantly textured film to be savoured. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyFew films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart. |
| The ListHannah McGillVeers from the ridiculous to the sublime with little shilly-shallying in between. |