The film depicts a day and a half in Harry Stoner’s life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. Read More »
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How to Murder Your Wife (1965) Richard Quine, Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan Read More »
The Out of Towners (1970) Arthur Hiller, Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron
George and Gwen Kellerman live in the small, quiet town of Twin Oaks, Ohio with their two young children and pet dog. Read More »
Kotch (1971) Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr
Wanting to avoid settling in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son’s family. Read More »
Luv (1967) Clive Donner, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Elaine May
Harry is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. Read More »
Avanti! (1972) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill
Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster crosses paths with London shop girl Pamela Piggott when they come to Ischia to pick up the bodies of her mother and his father Read More »
Bell, Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. Read More »
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) Melvin Frank, Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Comedy
The story of Mel and Edna (Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Read More »
Thats Life! (1986) Blake Edwards, Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Comedy, Drama
Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Read More »
You Cant Run Away from It (1956) Dick Powell, June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. Read More »
Fire Down Below (1957) Robert Parrish, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Adventure, Drama
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Read More »
JFK (1991) [Director’s Cut] Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22, 1963, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby, supposedly avenging the president’s death. Read More »
Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Biography, Drama, History
In September1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Valparaiso with his friend Terry Simon to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York with him. Read More »
The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Comedy, Drama, Romance
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can’t get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives – Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger – on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake’s office for the first time, he learns that it isn’t just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment.
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