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Walter Matthau
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Walter Matthau - filmography
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Hanging Up
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow
Director: Diane Keaton
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Daddy's favorite daughter is over-extended in this Diane Keaton-directed comedy about loving, laughing, and learning to let go. Meg Ryan plays party-planner Eve, a streched-too-thin mother, wife, sister, and dutiful daughter. Eve's harried life has become even more complicated by her reliance on ..read more »
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54%
from 193 members
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Neil Simon's The Odd Couple 2
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski
Director: Howard Deutch
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In this sequel, decades have passed since uncompromising slob Oscar (Walter Matthau) and fussy neatnick Felix (Jack Lemmon) shared the trials and tribulations of apartment life together. After years of going their separate ways, the two are suddenly thrown together again, en route to the wedding of ..read more »
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68%
from 143 members
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I'm Not Rappaport
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Ossie Davis, Walter Matthau, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Herb Gardner
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Nat Moyer (Walter Matthau) and Midge Carter (Ossie Davis) are a comically mismatched duo of geriatric New Yorkers, who observe the idiosyncrasies of modern urban life while seated on a bench in Central Park. When Midge, who also serves as the manager of Nat's apartment building, becomes threatened ..read more »
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I.Q.
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau
Director: Fred Schepisi
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On a sunny afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, of the 1950s, love strikes in the oddest way: Albert Einstein's niece Catherine (Meg Ryan), and her uptight fiance James (Stephen Fry), stop at a gas station for car repairs, and when dim-witted grease monkey Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) appears, he falls ..read more »
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59%
from 805 members
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JFK
(2 discs)
on DVD (1991)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed 'countermyth', JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been proposed in its stead. Focusing on the investigation by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison ..read more »
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71%
from 4,327 members
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The Couch Trip
on DVD (1988)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Based on the novel by Ken Kolb, Michael Ritchie's comedy THE COUCH TRIP poses the theory that psychiatrists are even more screwed up than their clients. The story concerns Dr. George Maitlin (Charles Grodin), a stuffy, pretentious radio shrink who decides to take a sabbatical after his own mental ..read more »
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61%
from 326 members
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Pirates
(1986)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Charlotte Lewis, David Kelly
Director: Roman Polanski
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Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his quick thinking, he rises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the daughter of the governor of ..read more »
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52%
from 93 members
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The Survivors
on DVD (1983)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Michael Ritchie's comedy concerns an unlikely friendship that forms between two down-on-their-luck men who have just recently lost their jobs. Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) was fired by his boss's parrot because his boss couldn't bear to confront Donald with the terrible news. Meanwhile, Sonny ..read more »
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49%
from 268 members
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Buddy Buddy
(1981)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
Director: Billy Wilder
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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 ..read more »
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57%
from 36 members
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Hopscotch
on DVD (1980)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston
Director: Ronald Neame
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Miles Kendig is a veteran CIA agent who finds himself reduced to a desk job after the arrival of new boss Myerson. Refusing to take it lying down he disappears and begins to write his memoirs, threatening to lift the lid on the world's top intelligence agencies. He soon has both the CIA and the KGB ..read more »
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65%
from 263 members
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Kotch
on DVD (1980)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr
Director: Jack Lemmon
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Jack Lemmon's debut as a director is helped by the fine performance of his longtime buddy Walter Matthau as Kotch, an elderly widower who is at odds with his family but doesn't give up on life. When his children announce their plans to take him to a retirement home, he hits the road and meets Erica ..read more »
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57%
from 93 members
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Bad News Bears
(1976)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow
Director: Michael Ritchie
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One of director Michael Ritchie's most universally recognised comedies, 'The Bad News Bears' is a film that continues to entertain audiences of all ages. The story concerns a hopeless Little League team that eventually scores big when it acquires a new coach, Morris Buttermaker, a grouchy, beer-..read more »
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50%
from 64 members
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Earthquake
on DVD (1974)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy
Director: Mark Robson
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This essential 1970s disaster epic, with a script co-authored by Mario Puzo (THE GODFATHER), centers around a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles and the shocking aftermath it causes. The all-star cast is led by Charleton Heston as a construction engineer whose marital problems supply him with ..read more »
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60%
from 127 members
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The Taking Of Pelham 123
on DVD (1974)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
Director: Joseph Sargent
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Four ruthless gunmen (played by Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, and Earl Hindman) take over a New York City subway and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a million dollar ransom is fully paid. Walter Matthau portrays the transport cop ..read more »
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76%
from 533 members
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The Front Page
(1974)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon
Director: Billy Wilder
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In perhaps the most honest of the remakes, director Billy Wilder satisfies the 1970s craze for nostalgia in this third filming of the Hecht-MacArthur play about wild and woolly Chicago newspapermen in the 1920s. Sparks fly as Walter Matthau plays a ruthless managing editor who learns that his ace ..read more »
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71%
from 15 members
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Charley Varrick
on DVD (1973)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
Director: Don Siegel
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Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very large amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.
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70%
from 111 members
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Plaza Suite
(1971)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Based on Neil Simon's hit Broadway play, PLAZA SUITE is a collection of three comic episodes set in Suite 719 of New York City's famed Plaza Hotel, each starring comic legend Walter Matthau. In the first vignette, Matthau's wife (Maureen Stapleton) discovers--on their 23rd wedding anniversary--that ..read more »
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51%
from 14 members
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Cactus Flower
on DVD (1969)
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman
Director: Gene Saks
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Bachelor dentist Julian Winston (Walter Matthau) wants an excuse to keep from marrying his flighty younger girlfriend, Jill (Goldie Hawn), so he calls upon his stoic receptionist, Stephanie (Ingrid Bergman) to masquerade as his wife. Much to his surprise, Stephanie emerges from her shell during the ..read more »
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62%
from 340 members
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Hello Dolly
on DVD (1969)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Director: Gene Kelly
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In early-20th-century Yonkers, a wealthy local merchant (Horace Vandergelder, played by Walter Matthau) hires matchmaker Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) to find a mate for him--but instead she decides to win him over for herself. His life is further complicated by his young niece, Ermengarde, who is ..read more »
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69%
from 522 members
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A Guide for the Married Man
(1967)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon
Director: Gene Kelly
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Robert Morse convinces his best friend Walter Matthau that he should fool around with other women in order to preserve his happy marriage. Morse illustrates his point with a series of vignettes acted out by a lot of famous celebrities. Among them are Jayne Mansfield, Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Jack ..read more »
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45%
from 4 members
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The Odd Couple
on DVD (1967)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Director: Gene Saks
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After being thrown out of his home and marriage, fastidious Felix (Jack Lemmon) decides the only thing for him to do is to move in with his best friend, Oscar (Walter Matthau), a divorced man living alone in an Upper Eastside New York City apartment. Oscar is a total slob, with week-old sandwiches ..read more »
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76%
from 941 members
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The Fortune Cookie
on DVD (1966)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
Director: Billy Wilder
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Starring the legendary duo of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, Wilder's characteristically cynical comedy again explores the corrupting influence of money. When TV-cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is slightly injured while covering a football game, Willie Gingrich (Matthau), his ambulance-chasing ..read more »
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64%
from 242 members
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