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Sandy Dennis: Jack Lemmon
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The movie was a hit at the time and fans of Jack Lemmon (and Sandy Dennis for that matter) will want to see him in his prime. The two leads are now gone, but their work lives on and what better way to pay homage than this. The film ... contains a bevy of cameos by Carlos Montelban (Ricardo’s brother) and a pre-“Empire Strikes Back” Billy Dee Williams among others. Though this same theme was revisited in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and later in the self-titled remake with Hawn and Martin, this remains the best of the three to me. Though New York has certainly changed in the time since this movie, we can see that no matter who you are, the city that never sleeps can still claim victory on those unsuspecting little people we call “tourists”. Recommended.
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Neil Simon's curious comedy The Out-of-Towners concerns a pair of non-New Yorkers (Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis) having a hellish visit to the Big Apple on the eve of a job interview for Lemmon's character. Made in 1970 and directed by Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, this hectic film almost seems ahead of its time when compared to more recent misery-piled-on-misery comedies such as Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The couple in this film endure everything that can go wrong on a trip, including being forced to spend the night in a mugger-happy Central Park. The strange element in Simon's script, though, is that Lemmon's character is so unpleasant. A middle-class, uptight guy who can't believe that New Yorkers in the service profession don't perform their jobs slavishly, he's kind of a one-note joke that quickly wears thin. It was remade with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn in 1999.
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Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis to New York City. What follows has led some critics to complain that playwright Neil Simon has written a "hate letter" to Manhattan.
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