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Jan 8, 1976 · The Sunshine Boys: Directed by Herbert Ross. With Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith. A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
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- Comedy
- Herbert Ross
- 1976-01-08
The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and produced by Ray Stark, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on the 1972 play of the same name by Neil Simon, about two legendary (and cranky) comics brought together for a reunion and revival of their famous act.
The incorrigible senior at the heart of this movie hits his adult nephew once and threatens him with a knife. He suffers a heart attack and falls down a few stairs. No injuries or deaths.
- Herbert Ross
- Renee Schonfeld
- MGM/UA
George Burns ("Oh, God!") won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as one of two feuding vaudevillian actors who are reunited for a television comeback. Co-sta...
The Sunshine Boys is an original two-act play written by Neil Simon that premiered December 20, 1972 on Broadway starring Jack Albertson as Willie Clark and Sam Levene as Al Lewis and later adapted for film and television.
- Gary Blake, Neil Simon
- 1973
Dec 14, 2004 · Sunshine Boys, The - (Original Trailer) A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1975) with an Academy Award®-winning performance by George Burns.
The Sunshine Boys (1975) - The film was released three years after its source play of the same name by Neil Simon was first performed. The original Broadway production of "The Sunshine Boys" opened at the Broadhurst Theater in New York City on December 20, 1972, and ran for five hundred thirty-eight performances until April 21, 1974.
