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That's Life [VHS]

That's Life [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Julie Andrews , Sally Kellerman , Robert Loggia , Jennifer Edwards
Director: Blake Edwards
This film was something of a movie stunt: writer-director Blake Edwards cast his friends and family, gave them a structure, then had them improvise the scenes before he put them into a script. The result is so amazingly flat that you'll be astonished that anyone would think they were actually doing something interesting. The plot centers on a writer (Jack Lemmon) who, in his anxiety about the onset of his 60th birthday, doesn't notice that his singer-wife (Julie Andrews) is going through a crisis of her own: a throat ailment that may be cancer. The cast, which includes both Edwards's and Lemmon's kids, flutters around them searching for a way to kick-start the plot, but we're left to watch Lemmon twittering about in the midst of a very late midlife crisis. --Marshall Fine
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Days of Wine & Roses [VHS]

Days of Wine & Roses [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Lee Remick , Charles Bickford , Jack Klugman , Alan Hewitt
Director: Blake Edwards
Days of Wine and Roses is one film not to watch if you are melancholic by nature, as this tale of middle-class alcoholism rings very true. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick are the besotted couple who find that life is not always fun when viewed through rosé-colored glasses. He's the San Francisco business executive who marries Remick and seduces her into a cocktail culture that soon overpowers them both. It is not a pretty picture when their life shatters around them, but this film is extremely compelling for their performances. It is matched only by Billy Wilder's Lost Weekend and the more explicit Leaving Las Vegas. This was nominated for five Academy Awards and won for the title song by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer. Filmed by Blake Edwards in 1962, it is based on a Playhouse 90 television production from 1958, starring Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Some Like It Hot (1959) [VHS]

Some Like It Hot (1959) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Marilyn Monroe , Tony Curtis , Jack Lemmon , George Raft , Pat O'Brien
Director: Billy Wilder
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting, they quickly board a southbound train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the twonewestand homeliestmembers of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for Josephine, an ancient playboy (Joe E. Brown) falls for Daphne, and a mob boss (George Raft) refuses to fall for their hoax! Nominated* for 6 Academy Awards(r), Some Like It Hot is the quintessential madcap farce and one of the greatest of all film comedies (The Motion Picture Guide). *1959: Director, Actor (Lemmon), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography (B&W), Art Direction (B&W), Costume Design (B&W, winner)
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Mister Roberts [VHS]

Mister Roberts [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Henry Fonda , James Cagney , William Powell , Jack Lemmon , Betsy Palmer
Director: John Ford , Joshua Logan , Mervyn LeRoy
Henry Fonda re-created his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)--an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy--and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician, and Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, self-effacing humor, and not a trace of self-pity. A wonderful film. --Tom Keogh
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12 Angry Men [VHS]

12 Angry Men [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , George C. Scott , Hume Cronyn , Ossie Davis , Courtney B. Vance
Director: William Friedkin

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The Out-of-Towners [VHS]

The Out-of-Towners [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Sandy Dennis , Sandy Baron , Anne Meara , Robert Nichols
Director: Arthur Hiller
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  • Lohengrin Wedding March
  • Oh Promise Me
  • Because
  • Love's Old Sweet Song
  • Meditation From Thais
  • The Rosary
  • Ave Maria
  • Reverie

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Odd Couple [VHS]

Odd Couple [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau , John Fiedler , Herb Edelman , David Sheiner
Director: Gene Saks
Neil Simon's terribly funny play about roommates Oscar the slob and Felix the neurotic was first committed to film in this 1968 production, directed by Gene Saks (Barefoot in the Park). Perfectly timed, ingeniously rendered, not a hair out of place in the history-making performances of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon (or the great support cast), The Odd Couple is a movie that one just has to see every two or three years to stay happy. The poker-game sequence in which Oscar's cronies seem to be falling under the sway of fussy Felix's talent for making sandwiches is priceless. --Tom Keogh
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Mass Appeal [VHS]

Mass Appeal [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Zeljko Ivanek , Charles Durning , Louise Latham , Alice Hirson
Director: Glenn Jordan

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Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II [VHS]

Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau , Richard Riehle , Jonathan Silverman , Lisa Waltz
Director: Howard Deutch
Mike Nichols directed the 1965 stage production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, but while Nichols went on to become a vitally intelligent director of contemporary comedy, Simon's career thrived in the 1970s and '80s before dwindling towards sentimental fluff like this amusing but mildly disappointing sequel. Closer to Grumpy Old Men than the wry wit of Simon's original play and 1968 screen adaptation, the movie finds former roommates Oscar (Walter Matthau) and Felix (Jack Lemmon) reluctantly reuniting for the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter. When they get sidetracked in California, the road-movie formula unleashes the comedic chemistry of Lemmon and Matthau (which alone makes the movie worthwhile), but it's too casual to match the original's depth or dramatic foundation. Simon and Grumpy director Howard Deutch could have deepened the Oscar-Felix relationship to make it funnier and more emotionally involving, but instead they've played it safe with some good laughs in the kind of sketch comedy that Nichols would avoid. Simon's capable of much better than this, but Lemmon-Matthau fans will have a good time anyway. --Jeff Shannon
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Buddy Buddy [VHS]

Buddy Buddy [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau , Paula Prentiss , Klaus Kinski , Dana Elcar
Director: Billy Wilder

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