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  Review by Erin 🍺 ★★★ 5

  Jack Lemmon shut the fuck up challenge

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  Review by eely ★★★½

  sandy dennis with one eyelash and two broken heels is still more powerful than I will ever be.

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  Review by Sonny_Jim ★★★ 8

  Watching Uncut Gems didn't make me nearly as tense as Jack Lemmon does in the first hour of this movie. But as irritating and exasperating as his George Kellerman is, it's a legitimately great performance, especially as the movie winds its way down the stretch. (There's a moment in the last half-hour where he has to force a weary smile under extreme duress that is just gold.)

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  Review by Matthew Christman ★★★ 3

  What about The Out-of-Toners and it takes place at an Office Max?

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★ 11

  UNCUT GEMS for the first night you spend in the big city you’ve always dreamt of one day throwing it all away for.

  Jack Lemmon’s George makes Howard Ratner look like he swallows rosary beads for breakfast.

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  Review by Speeg ★★½ 10

  Sharp and funny dialogue written by Neil Simon but nearly ruined by the grating and relentless fury from Jack Lemmon. Anger and neuroses as comedy. I understand this is probably what people wanted from Lemmon given his track record of success with similar characters coming out of the sixties, but viewed now outside of that context, it’s tough to stay with. I’d better be careful with criticisms though as he is taking names and I’m liable to get sued for this opinion. Probably should have gone with The Odd Couple first and then moved on to this one.

  I feel like comedy in general is getting a bad rap on Letterboxd these days, but hard to say if that’s the…

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  Review by Steve G 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 ★★★½ 3

  Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis realise that New York City is not just the city that never sleeps, but can also be the city where it's impossible to sleep.

  This Neil Simon penned comedy is also one that you would find it impossible to sleep through as it practically never stops at any point. Poor Dennis and her weak ankles are dragged practically the whole way around the Big Apple (and Boston) by Lemmon, who just wants to find something to eat and a place to sleep before a very important job interview in the morning. The only problem is that everywhere is full due to a city-wide transit strike.

  So catastrophe piles on top of catastrophe. Reservations at the…

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  Review by Ben 1

  Vacation is the ultimate trip from hell movie, but The Out-of-Towners deserves a seat at the table. This movie never stops when it gets going. Literal laugh out loud moments every scene. The writing is quick just like the pacing. Timeless comedy that never chooses the low hanging fruit option. Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are about as perfect as a duo as you can get. Feeding off each other’s energy and delivering so many hilarious lines. My personal favorite recurring joke is Lemmon’s character constantly pulling out his list to add names of the people he plans on suing. I will recommend this underseen gem whenever I can.

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★½ 2

  I love Jack & Sandy. I tried watching this while the French film festival was going on in Los Angeles, but even starting from the beginning, the dialogue is at such a frantic pace and I needed to unwind a bit.

  I picked it back up and overall, liked it. Some of the situations were just too confounding. But that's what movies do: add a bit of drama.

  Vegan alert:
  Jack Lemmon orders chicken and cheese.

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  Review by Quint75 ★★★★

  Anxiety level cranked to 10 this was a pretty fun ride but the schtick does end up getting a bit old. No one plays exasperated like Jack Lemmon. 1970's transit strike New York plays like a hellscape.

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  Review by DreamScape40 ★★★½

  When life doesn't agree with your plans.. and wants to stress the living daylights out of you..
  Ha Ha Ha
  This was great!

  Even has a young Billy Dee Williams

  🛫✈🛬

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  Review by Milo Paulus ★★½ 4

  Arthur Hiller's The Out of Towners starts out as a nice comfort food comedy with increasingly more ridiculous and clever ways to obstruct its characters, but after thirty minutes or so it deteriorates into a stressful, repetitious slog where the situations grow more contrived and the performances more unpleasantly grating.

  Anything with the great Jack Lemmon is always worth checking out, but not this one. I found The Out of Towners to be an endless series of mishaps that became extremely tiresome to watch. This tale of an obnoxious neurotic and his annoying wife (Sandy Dennis, who is great in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.) running into one disaster after another, happening at the rate of probably one screw-up every…