Husbands
Husbands • 2h 22m
Directed by John Cassavetes • 1970 • United States
Starring Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes
The trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis. Cassavetes joins Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk—both of whom would become key collaborators of the director’s—playing a trio of middle-aged Long Island family men who, following the sudden death of their close mutual friend, channel their grief into an epic, multiday bender that takes them from Manhattan to London in a desperate, debauched quest to feel alive. By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this “comedy about life, death, and freedom” (as its tagline stated) stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film.
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HUSBANDS Commentary
The following audio commentary by John Cassavetes biographer Marshall Fine was recorded in 2009.
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Al Ruban on HUSBANDS
In the following interview, produced in 2020, producer Al Ruban recalls his experience working on HUSBANDS and the creative charisma of John Cassavetes.
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Jenny Runacre on HUSBANDS
For HUSBANDS’ London sequence, director-actor John Cassavetes cast three women for a series of intimate scenes. In the following program, produced by Criterion in 2020, actor Jenny Runacre speaks candidly about her experience working opposite Cassavetes.
