Jack Lemmon
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Out to Sea
(1997)A grieving widower and his buddy pose as dance hosts on a cruise liner in search of rich widows.

Under the Yum-Yum Tree
(1963)The machinations of a lusty landlord threaten the bliss of a couple trying to determine their character compatibility by living together platonically.

That's Life!
(1986)Unable to see the big picture, a California architect wrestles with an upcoming milestone birthday despite his seemingly perfect life.

Airport '77
(1977)Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water.

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
(1996)With legendary everyman roles across both comedy and drama, Jack Lemmon was that rare Hollywood star with affectionate memories of his parents.

Some Like It Hot
(1959)After witnessing a shooting, two Chicago musicians head south disguised as female jazz artists. Their cover seems perfect...until love comes along.

Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992)David Mamet's famously profanity-laden screenplay - based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play - ferociously nails the dog-eat-dog world where lies, flattery, threats, theft and bribery rule supreme as the four salesman scrabble to thrash the opposition and keep their livelihoods. But who will survive?

Irma la Douce
(1963)A policeman is reassigned to Paris’s Red Light district, where he discovers that the cops ignore the rampant prostitution in exchange for bribes.

Cowboy
(1958)Glenn Ford co-stars as a tough, no-nonsense trail boss and Jack Lemmon as a tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk whose yearning for the Old West outweighs his own physical limitations. As a result of Lemmon's participation in a 3,000 mile cattle drive, he discovers that the cowboy life is not as he'd imagined.

Grumpier Old Men
(1995)Put Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret together in a small town; add Sophia Loren; mix it up; and you get the only thing more ornery than Grumpy Old Men-it's sequel-in which a vivacious Italian beauty attempts to convert Wabasha, Minnesota's cherished bait store into a romantic Italian restaurant.

Phffft
(1954)A divorced couple hopes to move on after their split, but fate has other plans. They’re dating other people, but they keep running into each other!

It Happened to Jane
(1959)When a shipment of expired shellfish arrives to her New England lobstery, Jane Osgood decides to take a capitalist railroad tycoon to court.

Three for the Show
(1955)Widowed by World War I, a Broadway star remarries her late husband's songwriting partner only to have the first one turn up very much alive.
A Life in the Theatre
(1993)Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon stars with Matthew Broderick in Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet's A Life In The Theatre. In this sometimes funny, sometimes heartwarming portrait of art and angst, of what is possible and what is past, an aging veteran actor and a young neophyte share a dressing room during a season at a repertory theatre company.

The China Syndrome
(1979)A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the nuclear plant when a startling accident occurs that nearly causes the meltdown of the reactor. A newsreel cameraman accompanying Wells (Michael ...

Fire Down Below
(1957)The long-standing bond between two small-time smugglers sailing around the Caribbean is threatened when a gorgeous siren seeks passage on their boat.

Mister Roberts
(1955)A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
(1996)Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
(1997)This profile chronicles the life of actor Walter Matthau, whose self-deprecating humor was a product of poverty and New York street smarts.

JFK
(1991)A district attorney risks his family and his career to find the truth of the JFK assassination.