Out to Sea (1997) Review
Out to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…
Jack Lemmon won Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts and Best Actor for Save the Tiger, and worked with Billy Wilder seven times.
The Apartment is the performance, playing a man whose ambition and decency are in direct conflict for two hours, and it is far sadder than its comic reputation allows. Some Like It Hot gives him the opposite: total commitment to farce, in drag, opposite Tony Curtis.
The late dramatic work in Glengarry Glen Ross and Missing shows that the nervous energy that made him funny works equally well as desperation.
Brent SpinerOut to Sea (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lemmon and Matthau as dance hosts on a cruise ship, in the last decent film the pair made together. Slight, warm, and carried entirely by forty years…
Fred MacMurrayAn ambitious insurance clerk lends his apartment to executives for their affairs, until he falls for the boss's mistress at Christmas. The Apartment is Billy Wilder's 1960 American comedy-drama about an ambitious insurance company clerk who lends his Manhattan apartment…
Jack LemmonJames Bridges' 1979 nuclear plant near-meltdown. Released twelve days before Three Mile Island.
Donald Sutherland1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.
Jack LemmonWilder's 1959 cross-dressing comedy. Lemmon and Curtis on the run, Monroe in her last great performance.
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