Walter Matthau
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Naughty Dennis Mitchell, a mischievous five-year-old rascal, is dedicated to making his forbearing next-door neighbor George Wilson's life miserable, even though he really doesn't mean it. But now that school is out for the summer, he has all the time in the world to channel his overbearingly excessive energy to his beloved pensioner who only wants to be left alone with his garden. Meanwhile, a tattered thief visits the town. Undoubtedly, Dennis only...
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Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy back into his life again. However, there is clear disapproval of her from his grown children, especially his eldest son Robert. As Frank and Florence grow closer in their relationship, Robert begins to change his perspective on their commitment and devotion to one another.
3) Plaza Suite
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Plaza Suite is a confection of three witty comedic episodes starring one of America's finest comic actors, Walter Matthau. The scene is Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. In the first scene, Matthau's wife (Maureen Stapleton), discovers that he is fooling around with his secretary. In the next episode, Matthau portrays a producer who calls an old flame for a rendezvous - but the lady has more on her mind than romance. In the final sequence,...
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Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh star in this dramatic comedy that centers around the appointment of the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is aggressive, witty, magnetic-and an arch-conservative. He is wry, opinionated and roundly liberal. One hundred and one men have preceded the new female justice to seats on the bench of the nation's highest court, but now it's eight men and her. All unanimously accept their new colleague-except Matthau,...
8) Hello Dolly!
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The unforgettable songs and lavish production numbers in this classic musical, directed by the legendary Gene Kelly, reach glorious heights. Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau star in the charming tale of Dolly Levi (Streisand), a New York matchmaker who falls in love with a wealthy bachelor from Yonkers named Horace (Matthau).
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"Donald Quinelle, a rising sales executive, is sacked by his boss's pet parrot the same day that Sonny Paluso watches his gas station go up in flames. Drowning their sorrows at a coffee shop, the two New Yorkers disarm a would-be bandit, Jack Locke, and briefly become media heroes--then quickly learn about the price and perils of survival in an insane world. Jack is freed by a bureaucratic slip-up and goes gunning for Sonny and Donald, who discover...
10) The odd couple
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Following the collapse of his marriage, TV newswriter Felix Ungar decides to commit suicide in a cheap hotel room and fails. He dejectedly makes his way to the weekly poker game being held at the Riverside Drive apartment of his best friend, Oscar Madison, a divorced sportswriter. Felix accepts an invitation to share the eight room apartment, but his hypochondria and his compulsion for order and cleanliness drive the slovenly Oscar to distraction,...
11) Fail-safe
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A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow, and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.
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"The times have changed, but thankfully not the traits that make ex-roomies Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison the all-time perfect mismatch. Oscar is still an uncompromising slob who thinks a brown sock and a black sock is close enough. Felix is still a fussbudget who can't pass a spice rack without arranging it alphabetically. After years of going their separate ways, the two are together again, en route to the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter....
14) Grumpy old men
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The story of neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
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Morris Buttermaker, who is an alcoholic pest removal worker, and formerly for a very short time, a professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
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Grumpier old men: Sophia Loren plays the vivacious newcomer who wants to turn the beloved bait shop into a chichi ristorante. Of course, in this part of the Land of 1000 Lakes, this means war!" --container
Grumpy old men: The story of neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
17) Cactus flower
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Julian Winston, an easy-going bachelor dentist whose delicately balanced scheme crumbles under some unexpected circumstances. Winston strings along his dizzy blonde mistress, Toni by telling her that he has a wife and children. He learns that Toni has tried to commit suicide over him, so he promises to marry her. Toni, refusing to be a home-wrecker, insists on first meeting Winston's wife. He convinces his nurse Stephanie to pose as his wife.
18) Charade
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Criterion collection volume 57
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A woman, about to divorce her husband, finds that he has been murdered after converting all of their fortune into cash. Numerous people are searching for the money, which he apparently stole, and everyone assumes she must know where the money is hidden.
19) The grass harp
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Following the death of his parents, teenaged Collin Fenwick is sent to live with his father's cousins in a small Southern town in the 1930s.