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Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film based on Francis Veber 's play Le contrat and Édouard Molinaro 's film L'emmerdeur. It was the final film directed and written by Billy Wilder . Plot. To earn his long-awaited retirement, hitman Trabucco eliminates several witnesses against the mob.
- $10 million
- Jay Weston
Dec 11, 1981 · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski. During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in California's Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed next-door neighbor wants to commit suicide over marital problems.
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- Billy Wilder
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Roger Ebert calls Buddy Buddy a comedy without any laughs, a film that reduces Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon to unlikable ciphers. He criticizes the plot, the gimmick, and the morbidity of this Billy Wilder-directed movie.
Buddy Buddy R 1981 1h 36m Comedy List 65% Tomatometer 17 Reviews 43% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A suicidal businessman (Jack Lemmon) and a mob hit man (Walter Matthau) thwart each other...
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Buddy Buddy (1981), the final film by the great American writer/director Billy Wilder, is based on a French play by the prolific Francis Veber. Veber specialized in farces about odd-couple pairings, usually a straight-laced professional thrown together with a chaotic, idiotic, or oblivious buffoon unaware of his own ridiculousness.
