VideoDetective.com
Buddy Buddy (1981)
Released By: MGM Home Entertainment   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
Your video will start shortly...



More Videos:
Preview Details
User Reviews
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Billy Wilder
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Klaus Kinski, Paula Prentiss, Walter Matthau
Published ID: 5046
UPC: N/A
Plot: As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to disco, to Betamax video recorders. Based on Francis Veber and Edouard Molinaro's L'emmerdeur (known in the United States as A Pain in the A. . .), Buddy Buddy concerns the unlikely pairing of a gruff hitman and a suicidal klutz. Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy Disco Gambola (Fil Formicola), set to testify against the mob. As Trabucco heads off to a hotel across the street from the courthouse where he plans to set his hit, he runs into the depressed Victor Clooney (Jack Lemmon), who laments the fact that his wife has left him for the head of a weird Californian sex clinic. Trabucco keeps walking and sets up his rifle in a hotel room. He is disturbed by Victor trying to hang himself in the adjoining hotel room and tries to prevent him from killing himself by restraining him, but Victor breaks loose and climbs onto the ledge of the hotel window. To get Victor to come back in, he agrees to drive him to the clinic to see his wife. The two go to the clinic where Victor's wife Celia (Paula Prentiss) informs Victor that she is in love in the head of the clinic, quack Dr. Zuckerbrot (Klaus Kinski). When Victor finds out that Celia is filing for divorce, he heads back to the hotel to kill himself, with Celia and Dr. Zuckerbrot in pursuit. Arriving at the hotel, they plan to inject Victor with a sedative but stick Trabucco with the needle instead. Trabucco reveals to Victor his assignment to kill Rudy, and Victor tries to help him with the killing. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
IDDateTimeTitleReviewHelpfulVotesTotalVotes
Buddy Buddy
Added 12/12/2007
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.
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
Really funny!!
Added 6/16/2006
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).
5 out of 6 people found this helpful.
Wilder's Unfunny Farewell
Added 3/30/2006
Do not get the impression that "Buddy Buddy" (1981) is a lost masterpiece. Considering the talent involved, it's a painfully unfunny farce that died a quick death at the box office. Sadly, this was the great Billy Wilder's last film. Better to honor his memory with a screening of "The Apartment" or "Some Like It Hot."
3 out of 9 people found this helpful.
Great Lemmon and Matthau flick
Added 1/3/2006
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.
7 out of 10 people found this helpful.
DVD Now!!!!!!!
Added 10/26/2005
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!!!!!
18 out of 21 people found this helpful.
Photos


There are currently no photos.
Shopping
IDPriceImageUrlPurchaseUrlIdTypeBindingStore
VHS
$69.95 @ Amazon