Buddy Buddy

Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film Lemmerdeur, which screenwriter Francis Veber had adapted from his play Le contrat.

Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy Disco Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.When Victor climbs onto the ledge outside his window, Trabucco convinces him not to jump by agreeing to drive him to the Institute for Sexual Fulfillment, the nearby clinic where Victors wife Celia, a researcher for 60 Minutes, is gathering information for a segment on the program. ........

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