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Jack Lemmon - what members say
review by Countryboy from Perthshire
Still tense 22 February 2011
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What's not to love? 25 September 2003
Jack Lemmon - filmography
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Tuesdays With Morrie
(1999)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz
Director: Mick Jackson
Certificate: 
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 »
 
68%
from 857 members
Not currently released
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The Long Way Home
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sarah Paulson, Kristin Griffith
Director: Glenn Jordan
Certificate:
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 »
58%
from 80 members
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Neil Simon's The Odd Couple 2
(1997)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski
Director: Howard Deutch
Certificate: 
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 »
65%
from 647 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.
66%
from 60 members
Currently unavailable
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Grumpy Old Men
(1993)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret
Director: Donald Petrie, Donald M. Petrie
Certificate: 
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Academy Award-winners Lemmon and Matthau portray lifelong feuding neighbours with nothing better to do than make each day a hilarious game of revenge. But then voluptuous Ariel (Ann-Margret) moves in across the street and their dormant hormones reignite in an all-out competition to win her favour.
73%
from 455 members
Currently unavailable
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Glengarry Glen Ross
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
Director: James Foley
Certificate:
David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales ..read more »
69%
from 11,342 members
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JFK
(1991)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, John Candy
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate:
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 »
69%
from 14,944 members
Not currently released
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Macaroni
(1985)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi
Director: Ettore Scola
Certificate:
Jack Lemmon stars as crabby American World War II veteran Bob Traven, who travels to Italy on a business trip and reunites with wartime buddy Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), whose freewheeling Neapolitan lifestyle goes against all of TravenÂ’s uptight sensibilities. On his three-day stay in Naples, ..read more »
64%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Buddy Buddy
(1981)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
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 »
59%
from 46 members
Currently unavailable
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Tribute
(1980)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Robby Benson, Lee Remick
Director: Bob Clark
Certificate:
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
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Currently unavailable
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The China Syndrome
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
Director: James Bridges
Certificate:
This gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power carried an extra jolt when a real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania occurred just weeks after the film opened. Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) is a TV reporter trying to advance from fluff pieces to harder ..read more »
67%
from 2,265 members
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The Front Page
(1974)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
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 »
70%
from 41 members
Currently unavailable
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Avanti
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Juliet Mills, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
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 »
67%
from 928 members
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Kotch
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr
Director: Jack Lemmon
Certificate:
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 »
59%
from 134 members
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Out Of Towners
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron
Director: Arthur Hiller
Certificate: 
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 »
65%
from 440 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 »
73%
from 4,803 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 »
62%
from 1,125 member
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How to Murder Your Wife
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi
Director: Richard Quine
Certificate:
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George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish ..read more »
66%
from 814 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).
69%
from 129 members
Currently unavailable
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Good Neighbour Sam
(1964)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine
Director: David Swift
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To help his divorced neighbour claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
50%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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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 »
64%
from 1,128 member
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Days Of Wine And Roses
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate:
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 »
72%
from 771 members
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The Notorious Landlady
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire
Director: Richard Quine
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem. After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes involved ..read more »
59%
from 10 members
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The Apartment
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
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 »
74%
from 12,396 members
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Some Like It Hot - Blu-ray
(1959)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Billy Wilder's classic SOME LIKE IT HOT is one of Hollywood's most beloved comedies. Two musicians (the outrageously hilarious Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis) are forced to go on the run from gangsters and end up posing as women in an all-girl band, which includes a never-better Marilyn Monroe. While ..read more »
84%
from 10 members
Not available for rental
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Some Like It Hot
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Pat O'Brien
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 »
77%
from 31,231 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 »
58%
from 171 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 »
63%
from 1,046 member
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Fire Down Below
(1957)
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon
Director: Robert Parrish
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Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a ..read more »
52%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Phffft
(1954)
Starring: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson
Director: Mark Robson
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After several years of domestic squabbles, the marriage of Nina and Robert Tracy (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) goes phffft! Upon receiving their divorce papers, Nina and Robert are certain that they'll remain friends, no matter how many new lovers they pick up along the way. Nina dallies briefly ..read more »
70%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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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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from 15 members
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...ing and over the duration of the film tension is expertly built and maintained. Jack Lemmon and Jane Fonda both put in excellent performances - possibly their best. Still ...
