Walter Matthau
Joseph P. Kotcher
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Kotch is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Jack Lemmon and starring Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman and Ellen Geer. Adapted by John Paxton from Katharine Topkins 's 1965 novel of the same title, the film tells the story of an elderly man who leaves his family rather than go to a nursing home, and ...
Sep 17, 1971 · Kotch: Directed by Jack Lemmon. With Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman. In order to avoid being consigned to a retirement home, former salesman Joseph Kotcher leaves his son's family home to embark on a road trip where he strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenager.
"Kotch" is Jack Lemmon's directing debut, and I can't say he makes it as successfully as Clint Eastwood does with "Play Misty for Me." Lemmon's sense of comedy (so instinctively right as an actor) loses all subtlety here.
Apr 13, 2019 · The original trailer in high definition of Kotch directed by Jack Lemmon and starring Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman and Elen Geer.
Joseph Kotcher, a retired traveling salesman, lives with his son Gerald and daughter-in-law Wilma in Los Angeles. He dotes upon his young grandson Duncan irritating high-strung Wilma to the point that she hires Erica, a high school student, as a regular babysitter to replace his efforts.
When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher (Walter Matthau) begins to feel pressure to move out of the house he shares with the family of his son, Gerald (Charles Aidman), he opts to embark on a road...
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Required by the home to undergo psychological tests, Kotch resigns himself to the humorless psychologist who administers them, but when he sees that she has written in his record that he is unimaginative and too literal, Kotch decides to make other plans.
