Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives is a moving examination about marriage and divorce, and how it affects two New York couples. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow play a couple who are shocked that their best friends, Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis, are separating. Following the news, Allen and Farrow begin to speculate about the future of their own relationship, with Allen beginning a serious flirtation with his writing student, Juliette Lewis, and Farrow developing a crush on Davis' new love, Liam Neeson. Though it contains several uncomfortable jokes, Husbands and Wives is one of Allen's best "serious" films, one that captures the pain and sorrow of a dissolving marriage. The only thing that hampers the film is the distracting, constantly-moving hand-held camerawork. Though it is designed to make the film look like a documentary, it actually prevents the audience from engaging themselves emotionally with the film.