Episode 577: Buddy Buddy (1981)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Heather Drain and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss Billy Wilder’s Buddy Buddy (1981). The movie is yet another pairing of Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon. This time they’re filling the shoes of Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel in this remake of Edouard Molinaro’s L'Emmerdeur.

Matthau plays Trabucco, a ruthless hitman, while Lemmon plays Victor Clooney, a milquetoast whose wife left him three months prior. Naturally they get thrown together in the unlikeliest of circumstances and hilarity ensues.

The episode features an interview with Miles Chapin and a loving tribute to Klaus Kinski.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. This is the story of two men
0:43.1	who met on the off-ramp of the highway of life.
0:47.0	I'm sorry I was throwing up.
0:49.0	I had a nervous stomach because of my wife.
0:52.0	It was separated.
0:53.7	Three months this Thursday.
0:56.3	Jack Lemon is Victor Clooney.
0:58.9	We've been together for 12 years.
1:01.9	That long?
1:03.0	He only wants to die.
1:05.8	The whole thing is in my suicide, though.
1:08.3	You want to read it?
1:09.5	No.
1:11.5	Well, the math out is a mailman.
1:19.3	A milkman.
	...

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