Husbands (Criterion Collection)

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	Ben Gazzara	Harry
	Peter Falk	Archie Black
	John Cassavetes	Gus Demetri
	Jenny Runacre	Mary Tynan
	Jenny Lee Wright	Pearl Billingham
	Noelle Kao	Julie
	John Kullers	Red
	Meta Shaw Stevens	Annie
	Leola Harlow	Leola
	Delores Delmar	The Countess
	Eleanor Zee	Mrs. Hines
	Claire Malis	Stuart's Wife
	Peggy Lashbrook	Diana Mallabee
	Eleanor Cody Gould	'Normandy' Singer
	Sarah Felcher	Sarah
	Bill Britten
	Arthur Clark
	Gwen Van Dam	Gwen - Jeanie Singer
	John Armstrong	'Happy Birthday' Singer
	Charles Gaines
	Antoinette Kray	Jesus Loves Me Singer
	Lorraine MacMartin	Annie's Mother
	Carinthia West	Susanna
	Edgar Franken	Ed Weintraub
	Joseph Boley	Minister

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Director	John Cassavetes
Writer	John Cassavetes
Producer	Al Ruban, Sam Shaw
Photography	Victor J. Kemper

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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.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2009 featuring critic Marshall Fine
New interviews with producer Al Ruban and actor Jenny Runacre
New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim featuring audio recordings of actor-director John Cassavetes discussing his approach to working with actors
The Story of “Husbands”-A Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009), a half-hour program featuring Ruban, actor Ben Gazzara, and cinematographer Victor J. Kemper
Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1970 featuring Cassavetes, Gazzara, and actor Peter Falk
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English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
New cover by Eric Skillman

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