The Sunshine Boys

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Harrison R Laughed exactly once, when they finally do the damn sketch. I saw multiple moments of awkwardness and irritability, but nothing else funny. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/20/24 Full Review Alec B Good performances but the script is overwritten and should have been funnier. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/24 Full Review Audience Member The premise is simple: two old men were members of a vaudeville duo decades ago and broke up acrimoniously, but now the nephew of one wants them to reunite for a television special to showcase one of their acts. Reluctantly, they agree, though they had not met or spoken in twenty years. Once together, however, they find they still dislike one another. The big problem with the story is that it was written in the 1970's and takes place contemporaneously, while vaudeville effectively died out many years before the storyline's breakup would have taken place. Also, Matthau's character is a nasty man-nasty to everyone, even the nurse who takes care of him when he becomes ill. He's supposed to be the protagonist of the story, but I found no reason whatever to like him, or for anyone to want to have anything to do with him. The story would have been more credible if the televised reunion had fallen through. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A comic masterpiece! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/28/21 Full Review jon c History has been filled with some of the best comedy talents from the beginning of the 20th century; silent films, radio, vaudeville shows, broadway, and television for 47 years two men were the funniest duo there ever was in show business the late Walter Matthau and George Burns just so happened to be named Lewis and Clark, much like the explorers navigating the new world, the thing is though they parted ways and can't stand one another Richard Benjamin plays Lewis' nephew who works at ABC tv station so a pitch is brought up to get Lewis and Clark back together for an hour and a half segment Matthau is brilliant as always and Burns is just so adorably likeable even if their two characters are constantly at each other's throats it takes an hour and 10 min for things to finally get moving, if you can deal with Lewis and Clark bickering during the first half but these two comedic actors have such impeccable chemistry goes to show that even two talents who can't stand one another with such ounces of hostility can still learn so much Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review steve d Really fun and extremely funny. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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