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Genres:
- Comedy
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Time/Period:
- 80s
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Buddy Buddy, 1981
English
USA
Profile of Buddy Buddy
The mood of Buddy Buddy is offbeat, humorous, and witty. The plot centers around an assassination, an odd couple, and a situation where nothing goes right. It features farce and dark humor. Buddy Buddy is a comedy movie. In approach, it is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a clinic and in a hotel. Buddy Buddy happens in the 1980s. It is a remake and adapted from a play.
Summary of Buddy Buddy
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 he makes his final preparations, he's interrupted by the sounds of Victor Clooney (Lemmon) trying to hang himself in the next hotel room, depressed over his wife Celia's (Paula Prentiss), romance with her sex therapist, Dr. Zuckerbroot (Klaus Kinski). Annoyed, the hitman binds and gags Clooney, who nevertheless escapes, and decides to switch to a leap from the hotel ledge. The desperate Trabucco finally agrees to take Clooney to see his wife at the clinic, simply and literally to get rid of him, a task which proves much more difficult than the hitman could ever have imagined. Despite occasional flashes of the Wilder wit, "...premature ejaculation means always having to say you're sorry," and Lemmon screaming "Apocalypse Now," as he tries to set himself aflame, the film is a grim, tiresome, finale to one of the great directorial careers.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 December 1981 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
Cast and Crew
as Victor Clooney
as Trabucco
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