Buddy Buddy

Infobox Film
name = Buddy Buddy


image_size =
caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Billy Wilder
producer = Alain Bernheim
Jay Weston
Charles Matthau
writer = Billy Wilder
I.A.L. Diamond
starring = Jack Lemmon
Walter Matthau
Paula Prentiss
Klaus Kinski
music = Lalo Schifrin
cinematography = Harry Stradling Jr.
editing = Art J. Nelson
distributor = United Artists
released = flagicon|US December 11, 1981
flagicon|Germany April 1, 1982
flagicon|Sweden April 16
flagicon|Finland May 14
runtime = 96 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English
budget = $10,000,000 (estimate)
amg_id = 1:7390
imdb_id = 0082111

"Buddy Buddy" is a 1981 dark comedy based on the play by Francis Veber. It stars Jack Lemmon as a man on the verge of suicide, Walter Matthau as a hitman for the mob, Paula Prentiss as Lemmon's wife, and Klaus Kinski as the director of a sex clinic. It was the last motion picture directed by Billy Wilder.

With a much more cynical tone than other Matthau/Lemmon films, the film performed beneath expectations; adding to this, the reviews were largely negative (Ebert & Siskel put it on their "Worst of the Year" list).

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*imdb title|id=0082111|title=Buddy Buddy