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Summary: One of the all-time best
Review: If you've never seen this movie, you must see it to truly experience great comedy...one thing after another and you just can't believe that this could happen to 2 people all in 24 hrs. But I lived in NY and it can! It's so terrific, you will not regret spending your time with this fantastic movie. Lemmon and Dennis - so great - a true classic!
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Summary: Too Funny
Review: Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are just brilliant as a Midwestern couple for whom everything (and I do mean everything) goes wrong on their brief trip to New York. What makes this film utterly hysterical are their reactions to the numerous misfortunes that befall them.
It doesn't matter how many times I watch it, (and swear I won't laugh), I can't help myself.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are marvelous as two small town folks trying to relocate to New York. As if by Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong in Manhatten, does. First they lose their luggage, then their hotel reservations. Everything is on strike (transit, garbage). Throughout the movie, the frustrated Lemmon can only ask people who have wronged him for their names. This he writes down in a little black book while informing the offender to expect a call from his lawyer. Don't even think to get the remake of this film. It is already the perfect comedy! Look for a cameo by an extremely young Billy Dee Williams.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are marvelous as two small town folks trying to relocate to New York. As if by Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong in Manhatten, does. First they lose their luggage, then their hotel reservations. Everything is on strike (transit, garbage). Throughout the movie, the frustrated Lemmon can only ask people who have wronged him for their names. This he writes down in a little black book while informing the offender to expect a call from his lawyer. Don't even think to get the remake of this film. It is already the perfect comedy! Look for a cameo by an extremely young Billy Dee Williams.
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Summary: Hysterical Roller Coaster Ride.
Review: Neil Simon sends us all along for the ride in this "on target" spoof of what can happen to just plain folks from Ohio when they come to New York( by way of Boston) Incidently,at one time this film had the airplane hi jack scene cut for TV. The scene with John Brown in the dining car is an absolute gas.. " We have clam juice but its not cold." One can only imagine what warm clam juice on a train might taste like. The the final insult " crackers and olives" It never stops ..when a manhole cover hits the street you think you have seen it all...you haven,t
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Summary: could it be any funnier?
Review: one of the five funniest movies ever made
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Summary: My favorite Jack Lemmon movie
Review: One of the greatest movies of all time which never got the fame of other Jack Lemmon movies. Classic movie about eposodes that happen to every New York traveler one time or another. Can be watched over and over and never loses it's greatness or charm! A true five star wonder.
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Summary: Oh My God!!!!!!
Review: One reviewer said it right. Today's comedies are quite different from what they were when this marvelous gem was made. Today, in the tyranny of Hollywood accountant's bottom line orientation, producers are no longer willing to take risks and attempt to produce art. Today's video game raised generations don't have the patience for humor that is driven by great dialogue, they want the site gags and cliche "hot babes" - okay so it isn't all bad. However, if you are one who enjoys and even demands good writing, and good acting, this movie is calling to you. While far from Lemon's best work, it is indeed excellent.
This is a tale of the Kellerman's (Lemon and Dennis) who's trip to New York evokes Murphy's Law with an attitude. This is a tale of miscalculations, bad timing, blunders, and goofs. Will our heros survive this ill fated trip? Or will the big apple devour them? Their reactions to the various situations they fall into will have you laughing.
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Summary: Get Out of Town
Review: Probably in its initial release, THE OUT OF TOWNERS was considered a great comedy. However, today's audiences might find it trite and annoying...especially native New Yorkers or even the New York City travel bureau. It does capture a moment in time just before New York City was on the verge of urban decay in the late 70's, so it has its merits for being a time capsule. Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are husband and wife George and Gwen Kellerman, mid-westerners who are about to relocate to New York City for a job promotion. Their business trip becomes a "Murphy's Law" film as anything that can go wrong...does go wrong. From lost luggage, missed trains, long waits,a garbage and transportation strike, being rained on, muggings, a kidnapping, an unintentional cancelled hotel reservation, an unintentional mugging of hispanic child, etc., the couple suffer every conceivable mishap Neil Simon (screenwriter) can bestow upon his hapless characters. 'George' is a typical Jack Lemmon character. The performance is not exactly "phoned-in",but it is a familiar Lemmon persona. At first, this viewer sympathizes with George Kellerman. However, with each mishap, he becomes (understandably) mean, irritating, and illogical. The one comic gem about the character is that he writes down every person's name he feels has not given the proper customer service (i.e. airport personnel, hotels clerks) or courtesy after each plan on his itinerary has failed. Then he threatens them that they're going to hear from his lawyer. Sandy Dennis has perfect comic timing as the patient and supportive wife of Lemmon and the location shots of New York City play a major "support character" in the film. Overall, the film should be viewed with caution depending on one's disposition at a given moment meaning it can be hilarious or annoying. Lastly, the film is a showcase of a couple of future stars and well-known character actors. A young Billy Dee Williams (STAR WARS:THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) shows up in an airport sequence. Note: Look for actor Sandy Baron as the "TV-man in church". He played the recurring character Mr. Klompus on TV's SEINFELD and had a very funny role in the comedy film IF IT'S TUESDAY, THIS MUST BE BELGIUM.
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Summary: Vintage sour Lemmon
Review: Simply put, this movie is one of a half dozen films for which Jack Lemmon deserved an Oscar (which he didn't get). And modern Hollywood trying to grind out remakes of such classics as this one only shows that today's studios are so emptied out of ideas that they resort to robbing the graves of much better done films. In fact, no remake or sequel of any classic movie has ever been better than the original, so it's a huge waste of time quality-wise, done only to rake in a few extra bucks from ignorant young viewers whom the producers hope won't get wise to the scam too soon. The Out-Of-Towners doesn't just illustrate how New York sucks (if you're not rich) but that all big cities suck for the average person. Sure it's done as a dark comedy, but beneath the humor the lesson is still there that cities should stay smaller and more workable; whenever they get too huge they always turn into an unwieldy maze of inefficiency and nightmarish confusion. So if you live in a nice, comfy small town like the Ohio one Lemmon does in this movie, and your company someday decides to give you a corporate pat on the back, tell them thanks for the compliment but that you AIN'T going to any big city to collect it!
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