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Anyone interested in family relationships will surely enjoy this movie about a manipulative matriarch, Louise Closser Hale, who is not averse to fake fainting spells to get her way with her four sons and their wives.
Most of the other reviews posted here have compared this movie unfavorably with Mank's A Letter To Three Wives and whilst there are similarities it is actually closer - as my summary indicates - to a much later movie, Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell, in which any one of three GIs could be the father of Gina Lollobrigida's now fully grown daughter.
It's a taut, well-handled entry and though light years short of Letter To Three Wives is nevertheless highly entertaining.
In the man remarries versions both husbands waited the appropriate amount of time and only just declared their first wives dead and remarried the same day.
So they just started their honeymoons and the first wives stopped it before the honeymoon night.
It was nominated the Oscar for Best Cinematography, and for some reason, it won the Razzie for Worst Remake or Sequel, and it was nominated for Worst Picture and Worst Screen Couple for Costner and any of his three (film) wives.
I think I might be one of the few here who actually has nothing negative to say about this "Husbands & Wives" rip-off.
(Actually, that's my only quip -- too much like Allen's "Husbands & Wives."
In some countries, women still have limited property rights compared to men; in others, husbands have the right to forbid their wives from working.
The cell phone has become a new way for men to keep tabs on their wives, calling them and pressuring them to come home as soon as possible.
You rarely hear of men not allowing their wives to study, work, or go out during the day.
Mothers, aunts, grandmothers, sisters, and later girlfriends, wives, and daughters are expected to fulfill--even anticipate--a man's every desire.
Where wives and daughters now refuse to drop everything to prepare lunch for the man of the house, the maid takes up the slack.
Now it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to explain why their wives and children are buying palaces in the capitals of countries that are supposedly Russia’s sworn enemies.
Will democracy stop men from beating their wives?
Individual courtiers might come and go – whether fired, like Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, or beheaded, like two of Henry VIII’s six wives – but it wouldn’t change the dynamics of that world.
People who were willing to lend their wives and daughters to their guru, for the sake of the security he offered, could not understand why the same “blessing,” extended to the two girls, should land him in jail.
In the brave new world of postrevolutionary Russia, Anatoli Lunacharski looked forward to freedom from the mutual relations of husbands, wives, fathers, children, so you could not tell who was related to whom and how closely.
Only last month, in Narok, the town nearest my childhood village, a 13-year-old girl died after undergoing circumcision as a preparation for her marriage to a man who already had five wives.
Colorful Pakistani trucks are everywhere, carrying beams and wooden window, door, and bed frames, with wives and children sitting on top.
The “black widows” – wives of Islamist fighters killed in the Kremlin’s “pacification” campaign – are believed to be preparing retaliatory suicide missions at airports, train stations, and on buses.
And, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the wives of the Yodogo hijackers went to Europe, where they are suspected of abducting young Japanese students and taking them to North Korea.
I expected that many men of that younger generation would also have strong reactions, given how many of them are trying to figure out how to be with their children, support their wives’ careers, and pursue their own plans.
For example, in many countries, husbands are required to sign off on their wives’ business transactions.
Citizens’ attention can be channeled away from, say, major corporate theft and government malfeasance toward narratives involving two hapless individuals (and their wives and children, who are usually suffering quite enough without the media’s heavy breathing).
On this day, daughters, wives, and girlfriends give presents to Russian men and lavish them with attention.
The moral case against Trump and Johnson is not that they have been unfaithful to their wives, but rather that they subvert these conditions by lying relentlessly to the people they are supposed to represent.
Zuma’s turbulent personal life – many wives and his embarrassing contention during a rape trial that he avoided HIV infection by taking a shower – has invited ridicule.
Both John McCain and George W. Bush cleverly tapped into this fantasy – with its easy bonhomie and absence of wives and kids – to capture the hearts of the male journalists aboard their campaign buses, who could imagine themselves once again as tough, unfettered, and venturesome Kerouac figures.
But, as the media firestorm spread, Kelly changed his story and directed the White House staff to lie on his behalf – to assert that he had responded swiftly and negatively to the news about Porter’s former wives.
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