History Film / GrumpyOldMen

The movie's success spawned a sequel, ''GrumpierOldMen'', which gave Max a love interest in Maria (SophiaLoren), and revived the old Lemmon-Matthau tandem for one more run in the '90s, including movies such as ''The Grass Harp'', ''Out To Sea'', and ''TheOddCouple II'', thirty years after their original movie together.[[note]]The presidential comedy ''Film/MyFellowAmericans'' was also supposed to feature the pair, but Matthau withdrew due to illness; James Garner took his place.[[/note]]

''Grumpy Old Men'' is a 1993 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It features two, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin grumpy old men]], John Gustafson (Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Matthau) who've been neighbors for over 50 years and bickering for most of it, all the while ice fishing on the local lake and putting up with their kids (John's daughter Melanie, played by Darryl Hannah, and Max's son Jacob, played by Kevin Pollak) and John's nonagenarian father (Burgess Meredith). Then the pair's lives are turned upside down by a new neighbor named Ariel (Ann-Margaret), and their old feud goes all out to try and win her hand.

-->'''John:''' Ariel, I... ''(sees her locking the door)'' I thought you said...

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: The outtakes features take after take of Burgess Meredith making euphemisms for Chuck getting some action.

The movie's success spawned a sequel, ''GrumpierOldMen'', which gave Max a love interest in Maria (SophiaLoren), and revived the old Lemmon-Matthau tandem for one more run in the '90s, including movies such as ''The Grass Harp'', ''Out To Sea'', and ''TheOddCouple II'', thirty years after their original movie together.[[note]]The presidential comedy ''MyFellowAmericans'' was also supposed to feature the pair, but Matthau withdrew due to illness; James Garner took his place.[[/note]]

The movie's success spawned a sequel, ''GrumpierOldMen'', which gave Max a love interest in Maria (SophiaLoren), and revived the old Lemmon-Matthau tandem for one more run in the '90s, including movies such as ''The Grass Harp'', ''Out To Sea'', and ''TheOddCouple II'', thirty years after their original movie together.[[note]]The presidential comedy ''My Fellow Americans'' was also supposed to feature the pair, but Matthau withdrew due to illness; James Garner took his place.[[/note]]

The movie's success spawned a sequel, ''GrumpierOldMen'', which gave Max a love interest in Maria (SophiaLoren), and revived the old Lemmon-Matthau tandem for one more run in the '90s, including movies such as ''The Grass Harp'', ''Out To Sea'', and ''TheOddCouple II'', thirty years after their original movie together.[[hottip:*:The presidential comedy ''My Fellow Americans'' was also supposed to feature the pair, but Matthau withdrew due to illness; James Garner took his place.]]

* SoundtrackDissonance: Several examples, but the crowning one has to be a cheery little polka number going on after Max loses his beloved Green Hornet fishing pole under the ice, and searches despondently (and hopelessly) for it. (Naturally, John later fishes it up and anonymously returns it to him).

** In the first, [[spoiler:John has a heart attack and is very weak in the hospital talking to Ariel. That's the last we see of him, up until the end, where Jake, Max, and John's dad talk reverently about him outside of a church, leading the viewer to believe he's dead. But then they pull of their coats inside to reveal tuxes; what the viewer believes is John's funeral is actually his wedding to Ariel.]]

* MinnesotaNice: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], with the titular due spending all of their time insulting each other and pulling cruel pranks at one another's expense. Or maybe just played with, as by the end they're shown to be VitriolicBestBuds.

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* MinnesotaNice: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], with the titular due spending all of their time insulting each other and pulling cruel pranks at one another's expense. Or maybe just played with, as by the end they're shown to be VitrolicBestBuds.

* IntimidatingRevenueService: The first movie's plot involves the IRS repossessing John's house to pay back taxes.

* GrumpyOldMan: Two of them, naturally.

** In the second, [[spoiler:Jake is ambivalent about marrying Melanie, but it appears that he finally decided to marry her in the end...until it's revealed at the church that the wedding isn't Jake and Melanie's, but Max's and Maria's. They even [[LampshadeHanging lampshade it]] by mentioning they eloped beforehand.]]

''Grumpy Old Men'' is a 1993 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It features two, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin grumpy old men]], John Gustafson (Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Matthau) who've been neighbors for over 50 years and bickering for most of it, all the while ice fishing on the local lake and putting up with their kids (John's daughter Melanie, played by Darryl Hannah, and Max's son Jacob, played by Kevin Pollak) and Jack's nonagenarian father (Burgess Meredith). Then the pair's lives are turned upside down by a new neighbor named Ariel (Ann-Margaret), and their old feud goes all out to try and win her hand.

''Grumpy Old Men'' is a 1993 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It features two, well, [[GrumpyOldMan grumpy old men]], John Gustafson (Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Matthau) who've been neighbors for over 50 years and bickering for most of it, all the while ice fishing on the local lake and putting up with their kids (John's daughter Melanie, played by Darryl Hannah, and Max's son Jacob, played by Kevin Pollak) and Jack's nonagenarian father (Burgess Meredith). Then the pair's lives are turned upside down by a new neighbor named Ariel (Ann-Margaret), and their old feud goes all out to try and win her hand.

** In the second, [[spoiler:Jake is ambivalent about marrying Melanie, but it appears that he finally decided to marry her in the end...until it's revealed at the church that the wedding isn't Jake and Melanie's, but Max's and Maria's.]]

The movie's success spawned a sequel, ''GrumpierOldMen'', which gave Max a love interest in Maria (Sophia Loren), and revived the old Lemmon-Matthau tandem for one more run in the '90s, including movies such as ''The Grass Harp'', ''Out To Sea'', and ''TheOddCouple II'', thirty years after their original movie together.[[hottip:*:The presidential comedy ''My Fellow Americans'' was also supposed to feature the pair, but Matthau withdrew due to illness; James Garner took his place.]]

The movie's success spawned a sequel, ''Grumpier Old Men'', which gave Max a love interest in Maria (Sophia Loren), and revived the old Lemmon-Matthau tandem for one more run in the '90s, including movies such as ''The Grass Harp'', ''Out To Sea'', and ''TheOddCouple II'', thirty years after their original movie together.[[hottip:*:The presidential comedy ''My Fellow Americans'' was also supposed to feature the pair, but Matthau withdrew due to illness; James Garner took his place.]]

* TwistEnding: Both movies have one:

** In the first, [[spoiler:John has a heart attack and is very weak in the hospital talking to Ariel. That's the last we see of him, up until the end, where Jake, Max, and John's dad talk reverently about him, leading the viewer to believe he's dead. But then they pull of their coats inside to reveal tuxes; what the viewer believes is John's funeral is actually his wedding to Ariel.]]