Husbands and Wives

Husbands and Wives (1992)

When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.

Keywords: anger, break-up, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, cynicism, dialogue-driven, directed-by-star, divorce, dysfunctional-marriage, extramarital-affair, fake-documentary

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[On Gail, the woman she thinks her husband has been sleeping with]::Sally: What can I say? She's me, but she's younger.

[On finding out that her husband, with whom she separated recently, had been cheating on her]::Sally: It was a huge blow to my ego. You know, I thought he loved me, that, uh, that we were experimenting, you know.::Interviewer: But if you had met someone first?::Sally: [smiling] Probably right. Probably would have done the same thing.

Gabe: Change equals death!::Judy: What kind of bullshit? That's just a bullshit line! Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that's some kind of a, an insight or something, but it means nothing! Change is what life is made of! Change - if you don't change, you don't grow, you just shrivel up!

Sam: I used to eat red meat every day and then I gave it up and then I had some again recently and I was totally bloated! I mean, like, really bad!

Sally: Fucking men! Woman gets to be over a certain age, it becomes a different ballgame.::Paul: Oh, no, no -...::Sally: Don't defend your sex! It's true! You're great 'til you start to show your age - then they want a newer model.

Sally: It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That's my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Judy: You use sex to express every emotion except love.

Man: If astrology were true -...::Sam: It is true! It is totally, totally, totally provable, you know?::Female Party Guest: Provable how? From gypsies?::Sam: Well, it's totally logical, right? You know, why wouldn't the position of the planets have an influence on our personalities?

Gabe Roth: See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Gabe Roth: I do not flirt!::Judy Roth: Don't tell me you don't flirt because I've seen you do it, at parties, you put on a whole other personality.::Gabe Roth: Oh you're crazy.::Judy Roth: Of course you do. You get all soulful and pretend to want things that you really can't stand.::Gabe Roth: Like what? What are you talking about?::Judy Roth: Like moving to Europe. That's just a flirting technique, you couldn't survive off the island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours.