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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.
Jack Lemmon directs his friend and frequent costar Walter Matthau in this gentle comedic drama. When retired salesman Joseph Kotcher (Walter Matthau) begins to feel pressure to move out of the ...
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After kissing Duncan goodbye, Kotch first goes to Erica's high school to present her with a gift of money, as he feels responsible for her situation. Upon finding her clearing out her locker, Kotch learns that Erica is pregnant and moving to San Bernardino to work at a beauty shop.
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 trip instead of settling in a retirement home.
Befriending Erica, a young pregnant woman and his grandson's former nanny, Kotch begins to finds new meaning in life as he helps her prepare to...
