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A suicidal businessman (Jack Lemmon) and a mob hit man (Walter Matthau) thwart each other through adjoining hotel rooms.

Critics Reviews

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Variety Staff Variety 10/17/2019
A certain lack of care and even thought permeate the effort, from script to casting to execution. Go to Full Review
Time Out 02/09/2006
There is some byplay with doubles, disguises and mistaken identity, but the rest is all bland Panavision, dreary back projection, and laboured dialogue. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/23/2004
1.5/4
This movie is appalling. It made me want to rub my eyes. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 11/30/2023
3/5
…plays better without the burden of expectations that Wilder’s reputation brought to it… Go to Full Review
Diego Galán El Pais (Spain) 08/21/2019
The friendly collaboration between the three men transcends the images and communicates to the public a relaxed, entertaining, and cordial atmosphere. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Richard Freedman Newark Star-Ledger 03/26/2009
Wilder keeps the action moving at such a hectic pace that we forget most of the film is set claustrophobically in a hotel room. At 75, the old master has a lot to teach younger sprouts about the proper care and handling of true knockabout farce. Go to Full Review
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Era K Oct 10 Kids born in the 2010s may not remember the 25 KAPR-TV when it aired from May 5th 2017 to June 10th 2017 because kids born in the 2010s would have been six or seven years old when the show aired on Nickelodeon were lasting memories are still developing and the show was a poorly rated show on Nickelodeon and it didn't have as much frequent air time as some other Nickelodeon shows the show did not gain a wider audience or had repeated earrings and ask them other shows on the network and other popular programs had simply overshadowed the show and kids born later in the decade would have been even younger to watch the show meaning that it was not aired on the network frequently or consistently meaning that they weren't able to watch the show regularly when they were growing up or when they were younger because the show original run aired during their formative viewing years of television when they were old enough to watch television and TV kids born in the 20th cents were old enough to watch television since 2015 and 2016 and they might have vivid memories of the show in some regions See more Blu B 09/14/2024 Nothing about this is broken at all for having such an infamous reputation, but nothing is particulary good either. The setup is kind of clever, Matthau isn't bad, and you can see flashes of Wilder here and there but nothing meaningful. The biggest problem here is it isn't that particulary funny. None of the humor is bad but 90-95% of it just falls flat. Lemmon comes across more annoying than anything at times here. Everything is just fundamentally ok. The direction is basic lots of times and it kind of loses focus. It can't really tie in Lemmon's romance troubles well with the hired killer story into anything funny or particulary clever. If there is one credit I can give it, it's that it never feels like stuff just happens. It's just it's never funny or really goes anywhere. Skip It. There are plenty of better comedies with this duo and Wilder, but this isn't one of them. See more Thomas H 07/10/2023 Excellent forgotten outing starting Lemmon and Matthau See more @MilloTPue 05/22/2020 Between 2.5 and 3 stars. Of course, not the best story from the wonderful Wilder-Lemmon-Matthau trio, but it has a few laughs. See more 12/16/2019 Well i'm in it and would like to see again. people should look at it as an inside joke therefore making the humor a bit funnier. See more 10/01/2019 Very funny movie. I saw this back in 1981 when it came out. It has never been released on DVD or Blu Ray and it needs to be. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A suicidal businessman (Jack Lemmon) and a mob hit man (Walter Matthau) thwart each other through adjoining hotel rooms.
Director
Billy Wilder
Producer
Jay Weston
Screenwriter
I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
Production Co
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Heron Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 36m