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Tuesdays With Morrie
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz
Director: Mick Jackson
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A true story about a successful TV star who meets again with his old school professor sixteen years after promising 'to keep in touch'. Mitch has given up a career as a jazz pianist to take a lucrative but unfulfilling career as a sports reporter. When Morrie, Mitch's former professor, discovers he ..read more »
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68%
from 755 members
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Neil Simon's The Odd Couple 2
(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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65%
from 599 members
Not currently released
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My Fellow Americans
(1996)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Peter Segal
Certificate: 
Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, having individually discovered a cover-up by the current president (Aykroyd), flee together when they are almost assassinated by the Secret Service.
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65%
from 49 members
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Glengarry Glen Ross
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
Director: James Foley
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Glengarry Glen Ross tells the powerful story of the wheelings and dealings of a small Chicago real estate office, where the name of the game is to close the deal and stay on top. The film boasts an all-star cast, including: Al Pacino; Jack Lemmon; Alec Baldwin; Ed Harris; Alan Arkin; and Kevin ..read more »
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69%
from 9,484 members
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JFK
(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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69%
from 14,029 members
Not currently released
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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 37 members
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The China Syndrome
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
Director: James Bridges
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An explosive thriller where a TV news crew inadvertently films a startling, controversial incident at a nuclear power plant and a veteran engineer becomes a prime target for murder.
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65%
from 1,774 member
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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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59%
from 106 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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69%
from 24 members
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Avanti
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Director: Billy Wilder
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Jack Lemmon stars as Walter Armbruster in Wilder's leisurely romantic comedy set on the idyllic Mediterranean. When his father dies in a car crash on the isle of Ischia, the corporate executive is quickly on a plane. Once there, he learns from Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills), a young Brit, that her ..read more »
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66%
from 763 members
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Out Of Towners
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Up for a promotion, George Kellerman is being flown to New York City with his wife Gwen - all expenses paid - for an interview with the top brass. They plan to arrive the night before to enjoy dinner and a show but the plane gets diverted to Boston. George's carefully planned dream trip turns into ..read more »
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63%
from 332 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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72%
from 4,057 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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62%
from 918 members
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How To Murder Your Wife
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi
Director: Richard Quine
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Cartoonist Stanley Ford, a confirmed bachelor, attends a party one evening... and is bewitched by a blonde Italian knockout who pops out of a cake. Then he does a very stupid thing. He marries her on the spot. Though his new wife is a happy homemaker, a man's man like Stanley has no stomach for ..read more »
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65%
from 632 members
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The Great Race
(1965)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood
Director: Blake Edwards
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Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as archrivals The Great Leslie and Professor Fate in this madcap, round-the-world adventure comedy. The enemies are determined to win a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris. Also competing is the beautiful suffragette Maggie Dubois (Natalie Wood).
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67%
from 99 members
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Irma La Douce
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's adaptation of Alexandre Breffort's stage farce stars Shirley MacLaine as the Parisian prostitute of the title. When Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon) a naive, uncharacteristically honest young gendarme decides to raid Chez Moustache, the bistro which provides a base of operations for many ..read more »
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64%
from 937 members
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Days Of Wine And Roses
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Director: Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards's disturbing adaptation of J.P. Miller's PLAYHOUSE 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay, remains an anomaly in a body of work largely devoted to comedy. Clay, a San Francisco public relations man who likes a drink, meets secretary Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), who doesn't drink ..read more »
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71%
from 593 members
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The Apartment
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Director: Billy Wilder
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Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving ..read more »
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72%
from 10,086 members
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Some Like It Hot
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Director: Billy Wilder
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When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting they quickly board a southband train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (..read more »
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76%
from 26,524 members
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Cowboy
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi
Director: Delmer Daves
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When hardened trail boss Tom Reece (Glenn Ford) loses all of his money in a poker game, hotel clerk Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) offers a $3,800 loan in exchange for a piece of Reece's cattle business. As a result, Frank decides to leave his humdrum desk job and go on a cattle drive from Chicago to ..read more »
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56%
from 138 members
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Bell, Book And Candle
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
Director: Richard Quine
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Great cast in supernatural romantic comedy. When urban witch Novak casts a spell on Stewart to lure him away from a snooty former schoolmate, she finds the spell rebounding due to the intercession of a more powerful witch (Gingold). Lemmon and comic genius Kovacs add lots of laughs. Academy Award ..read more »
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62%
from 863 members
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The Long Way Home
on DVD
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sarah Paulson, Kristin Griffith
Director: Glenn Jordan
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After losing his wife, Tom Gerrin tries to fill the void by moving in with his son and daughter-in-law. But unable to recapture his previous lively spirit, he feels it's time he moved on. When he meets Marco, a ringmaster at a travelling circus, he feels a surge of hope and renewed interest in life...read more »
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58%
from 64 members
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The Hollywood Collection - Jack Lemmon
on DVD
Starring: Jack Lemmon
Certificate: 
This fascinating documentary charts the rise to fame of the irrepressible Jack Lemmon; from his early days studying silent comics Keaton and Chaplin, his soap opera beginnings, his Broadway highlights, through to his eventual status as a true Hollywood icon.
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70%
from 11 members
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Jack Lemmon facts
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Top Cast on Top Form 5 February 2004
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Once again Al Pacino is shown as one of the greatest actors of our time, but Jack Lemmon cannot help but steal the show from everybody around him with his portrayal of ...
