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Buddy Buddy [VHS]

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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!!!!!

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).

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).

This nice comedy must be released on DVD ( please wide creen ). I hope we don't have to wait very long.

This is a Lemmon-Matthau classic. This rates equal if not better the the grumpy old men flicks. Jack Lemmon is one of the best actors of all time and Matthau is superb as well. I can't understand how this is not available on DVD.

With all the junk that comes out weekly on DVD, you would think that a comic masterpiece with Jack and Walther would be out and in the stores by now. Matthau is brilliant as a hitman, very funny.

Two of America's finest comeday actors in possibly their finest performance and THEY WONT RELEASE IT ON DVD?????????

This is a fantistically and histerically funny movie. Walter Mattau is trying to assasinate a witness from a hotel room while Jack Lemmon is trying to kill himself in the next room. You can figure the rest.

I saw this movie years ago and wanted it as a gift for a friend. Netflix didn't have it! so... I found it on Amazon from a private seller. It was pricey but the giftee was delighted. Very typical Lemmon/Mathau movie from that era. Not there best work but worth watching.

Even Billy Wilder disowned his Americanized version of the hilarious French comedy "L'Emmerdeur" (1973). The legendary director's final collaboration with screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond resulted in this appalling stink bomb. Almost entirely set-bound, "Buddy Buddy" (1981) is a desperate farce that garners no laughs - despite the seemingly sure-fire presence of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Rarely have such gifted comic actors been so relentlessly unfunny. Since Wilder's celluloid disasters were few, it is better to ignore this depressing swan song and remember the brilliance of his earlier work.

Out of date movie but kind of funny It wasn't as good as I remembered and the tape I bought was not in good shape, so I had lines running through middle of movie I think this movie was not a good choice for these two, All though on Paper it looks good years later when they did grumper old men was much better, Not as good as fortune Cookie