Grumpy Old Men (film)
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| Directed by | Donald Petrie |
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John Davis Richard C. Berman |
| Written by | Mark Steven Johnson |
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| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | John E. Jensen |
| Edited by | Bonnie Koehler |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $35,100,000 |
| Box office | $70,172,621 |
Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis and Buck Henry. Directed by Donald Petrie, the screenplay was written by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995). The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. This was the sixth film starring both Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and their first on-screen pairing since 1981's Buddy Buddy.
Retirees John Gustafson (Lemmon), a former high school history teacher, and Max Goldman (Matthau), who was a TV repairman, are childhood friends, longtime rivals and next-door neighbors in Wabasha, Minnesota. Both of them are widowers. Their rivalry began decades earlier when John married Max's high school sweetheart, May. John and May were happily married for 20 years until her death, and had a daughter, Melanie (Daryl Hannah), who is having marital problems, and a son, Brian, who died in Vietnam. Max went on to marry Amy and had a son, Jacob (Kevin Pollak). Max never regretted marrying Amy, and thought their marriage was the best thing that ever happened to him. Despite their differences, both men lead boring and lonely single lives, and share a love for ice fishing, as well as competing, arguing, insulting, and pulling cruel practical jokes on each other. However, John has a problem that Max doesn't: he owes tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, and is going to great lengths to avoid agent Elliot Snyder (Buck Henry).
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