Grumpy Old Men (film)

Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and AnnMargret, 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 onscreen pairing since 1981s Buddy Buddy.

Despite their differences, both men lead similar boring and lonely single lives, and share a mutual love of the Minnesota winter pastime of ice fishing, as well as competing, arguing, insulting, and pulling cruel practical jokes on each other whenever possible. John, however, has a problem that Max does not have 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, who is after him to try and collect.One morning, moving vans come through the neighborhood and Max and John discover that someone has bought the house across the street from them. They find out who it is when both men are awakened at 130 AM by the sound of a snowmobile racing up and down the street. They see their beautiful new neighbor is college professor Ariel Truax AnnMargret, a widow who quickly becomes the talk of the town with her exuberant lifestyle and bizarre tactics to get to know her new neighbors. Their mutual lifelong friend Chuck Ossie Davis, who owns the lakeside bait shop, advises that they take advantage of the opportunity, as does Johns 94yearold father Burgess Meredith, who tells John that he should mount her as soon as possible. Chuck, to the amazement of everybody, takes the opportunity first, and after some good natured ribbing from Max and John he tells them of just how smitten he was and how they were fortunate to have her around. ........

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