Husbands

Cassavetes joins Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara on screen playing a trio of middle-aged family men who, devastated by the sudden death of their close mutual friend, anaesthetise their grief and fear by heading off to London for a boisterous, debauched breakaway. In their own desperate, inarticulate ways to assess the meanings of ‘life, death and freedom’, their childish immaturity is laid bare in this searing portrait. Of all the self-serving soul-searching that is professed in this painfully funny comedy, what emerges is a harrowingly candid deconstruction of American manhood – and the most fearless exposition of toxic masculinity.

Golden Globe Awards: Best Screenplay nomination