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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.
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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- 1981-12-11
Buddy Buddy Trailer 1981 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Jack Lemmon, Klaus Kinski, Paula Prentiss, Walter Matthau, Dana ...more.
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A suicidal businessman (Jack Lemmon) and a mob hit man (Walter Matthau) thwart each other through adjoining hotel rooms.
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- Billy Wilder
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A contract killer and a depressed neighbor become unlikely friends in a hotel room near a Mafia trial. Buddy Buddy is a 1981 film directed by Billy Wilder and written by I. A. L. Diamond.
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 is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film L'emmerdeur, which screenwriter Francis Veber had adapted from his play Le contrat.
