Jack Lemmon
Author
Description
Jack Lemmon won an Oscar. for this dramatic performance, considered by many to be his finest. Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. He'll juggle the books, supply women for clients... and even set fire to his own dress manufacturing factory. He is drawn to an America when life...
Author
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Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
8) Out to Sea
Description
In search of lonely ladies with big bank accounts, happy-go-lucky Charlie cons his cranky, widower brother-in-law Herb into joining him on an all-expense-paid, luxury cruise. But their "deluxe accommodations' are deep in the bowels of the ship and Charlie has actually signed them on as dance hosts! Under the tyranny of crooning cruised director Gil Godwyn, Charlie and Herb are in for rough weather as they romance the luscious Liz and the lovely Vivian....
Pub. Date
1997
Description
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former Presidents are framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents. The two squabbling ploitical foes plunge into a desparate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.
11) Out to sea
Description
Two men decide to become dance instructors on a cruise ship so they can meet women and con them out of money.
12) Grumpy old men
Formats
Description
Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
13) Grumpier old men
Pub. Date
c1995, 1997
Description
Grumpy Old Men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante
Pub. Date
[1997]
Formats
Description
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former one-term presidents are framed in a scandal by the current president and pursued across the U.S. by armed agents. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an unexpected crash course in how their policies affected the citizens....
15) Save the Tiger
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Harry Stoner is caught in a violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct.
16) Some Like it Hot
Series
Description
Set during Prohibition, two men, sought by the mob, disguise themselves as girls and join a female jazz band. When they fall in love complications naturallly ensue, which makes for a crazy comedy.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
During World War II, the Army recruits Navy Officer Rip Crandall to command a battered old Schooner for a top secret mission. Masquerading as a Japanese fishing boat, this nautical nightmare must smuggle a spy through the mine-infested waters of the South Pacific. Unfortunately for Crandall, he has inherited a wild crew of butterfingerd landlubbers, including First Officer Tommy Hanson. Can the dedicated Lieutenant whip these comically inexperienced...
19) The front page
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The story finds hard-nosed editor Walter Burns trying every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter Hildy Johnson from leaving the newspaper business to get married.
20) Irma LaDouce
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A French policeman single-handedly raids a brothel and loses his job because he discovers the chief of police is one of the customers. He soon falls in love with one of the "Ladies".