Product Details

• Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar
• Directors: Billy Wilder
• Writers: Billy Wilder, Francis Veber, I.A.L. Diamond
• Producers: Alain Bernheim, Charles Matthau, Jay Weston
• Format: PAL
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004CIEM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671,648 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DVD Now!!!!!!!, October 26, 2005

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Bertie "Bertie" (Provincia de Buenos Aires, San Isidro Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddy Buddy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I can't believe some of the crap film companies are releasing on DVD while Buddy Buddy isn't available on DVD format yet (even worse: this film is out of stock on VHS!!!!!!)

Do it at least as a Jack Lemmon tribute, for crying out loud!!!!!

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars splendid lemmon/matthau classic, January 30, 2001

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M. Leiblfinger (Linz, Österreich) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buddy Buddy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

is there any better jack lemmon/walter matthau movie than "buddy buddy"? maybe yes, but this is still a splendid performance from both of them.

victor clooney (jack lemmon) is a suicide attempter who manages to appear in trabucco's (walter matthau) life at the wrong time and with each meeting becomes more and more annoying. while trabucco tries to finish a contract before retiring as a hit man clooney thinks that his life isn't worth living any more because of problems with his wife.

i really liked the movie because it's a funny but not "standard" comedy. once i've been told that we laugh when things are true. though i never met a suicide attempter while i tried to shoot someone, the main story (meeting someone annoying at the time you really needn't) served me a lot of laughs and i can just recommend this movie to those who like to laugh while watching a movie (and - of course - to other lemmon/matthau or billy wilder fans).

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really funny!!, June 16, 2006

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S. Rao (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buddy Buddy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of my favorite Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau movies. It is up there with the Fortune Cookie and other great ones.

Sadly this movie was never released in DVD. It needs to be.

Walter has really acted brilliantly here as a crusty professional assassin who keeps getting fouled up by the incompetent suicide attempter (Jack Lemmon).