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Budget USD 10,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM, United Artists
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Other Titles
• Buddy Buddy
• Buddy, Buddy (1982)
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Genre: Comedy, Black Comedy, Farce, Marriage
Tagline: The greatest movie buddies of all time are back!
Plot: This black comedy stars the comic duo of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a pair of antagonists. Trabucco (Matthau) is a hitman who, having already dispatched two of the witnesses to an act of criminal fraud is about to ice the third, mobster Rudy Gambola (Fil Formicola) before he can testify. As he makes his final preparations, he's interrupted by the sounds of Victor Clooney (Lemmon) trying to hang himself in the next hotel room, depressed over his wife Celia's (Paula Prentiss), romance with her sex therapist, Dr. Zuckerbroot (Klaus Kinski). Annoyed, the hitman binds and gags Clooney, who nevertheless escapes, and decides to switch to a leap from the hotel ledge. The desperate Trabucco finally agrees to take Clooney to see his wife at the clinic, simply and literally to get rid of him, a task which proves much more difficult than the hitman could ever have imagined. Despite occasional flashes of the Wilder wit, "...premature ejaculation means always having to say you're sorry," and Lemmon screaming "Apocalypse Now," as he tries to set himself aflame, the film is a grim, tiresome, finale to one of the great directorial careers.
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| Directed by |
Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot, Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity |
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| Written by |
Francis Veber
The Birdcage, Fathers' Day, The Man with One Red Shoe |
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| Cast |
Jack Lemmon
Some Like It Hot, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Apartment |
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 | Klaus Kinski
For a Few Dollars More, Doctor Zhivago, Aguirre: The Wrath of God |
 | Ed Begley Jr.
This Is Spinal Tap, The Accidental Tourist, Get Over It |
 | | | Miles Chapin
The People vs. Larry Flynt, Howard the Duck, Hair | |
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| Music By |
Lalo Schifrin
Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible, Rush Hour |
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