A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Isabell O'Connor
- Nurse
- (as Isabell Monk)
Buffy Sedlachek
- Punky
- (as Buffy Sedlacheck)
Oliver Osterberg
- Fisherman
- (as Ollie Osterberg)
Joel Edwards
- Fisherman
- (uncredited)
Steven Mark Hahn
- Moving Man
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAt the end of the theatrical trailer, there is an outtake of Walter Matthau in the bath tub saying directly into the camera "If I'd known there was going to be a nude scene, I would've asked for an extra million." The crew found this so hilarious, they ended up using it as a post credits scene.
- GoofsJohn reaches into the back seat of his car to retrieve a tax folder. Jacob approaches and greets John. When John turns around to return the greeting his hands are empty. In the next shot he once again has the folder.
- Quotes
Grandpa Gustafson: Looks like Chuck's taking old one-eye to the optometrist.
- Crazy creditsOne outtake has Jack Lemmon flub his lines, and he continues, in the same tone of voice, babbling gibberish. Matthau answers him in the same "language." Their timing and intonation are precisely as they'd be if they weren't jabbering nonsense to one another.
- ConnectionsEdited into Ann-Margret: Från Valsjöbyn till Hollywood (2014)
- SoundtracksHeat Wave
Written by Irving Berlin
Performed by Ella Fitzgerald
Courtesy of VERVE RECORDS
By Arrangement with POLYGRAM SPECIAL MARKETS
Featured review
What a great situation, and great acting, in a fast little farce.
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
The set-up is so funny, and it's so great to see Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau at it again, you have to laugh even though the jokes are often more silly than funny. It's a feel-good drama despite all the hysterics. Maybe the best moments are Burgess Meredith as Lemmon's father, delivering crude old man lines with enough raw disregard for everything to sink a ship. "Did you mounter her?" he asks his elderly son.
Obviously a hit enough to lead to "Grumpier Old Men" two years later, also funny but less fresh. And check out the Meredith outtakes on YouTube--just type his name and look for the "Grumpier Old Men" clip.
The set-up is so funny, and it's so great to see Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau at it again, you have to laugh even though the jokes are often more silly than funny. It's a feel-good drama despite all the hysterics. Maybe the best moments are Burgess Meredith as Lemmon's father, delivering crude old man lines with enough raw disregard for everything to sink a ship. "Did you mounter her?" he asks his elderly son.
Obviously a hit enough to lead to "Grumpier Old Men" two years later, also funny but less fresh. And check out the Meredith outtakes on YouTube--just type his name and look for the "Grumpier Old Men" clip.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $70,172,621
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,874,911
- Dec 26, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $70,172,621
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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