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| Directed by | Howard Deutch |
| Written by | Mark Steven Johnson |
| Produced by | John Davis Richard C. Berman |
| Starring | Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Ann-Margret Ann Guilbert Sophia Loren Kevin Pollak Daryl Hannah Burgess Meredith |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | Billy Weber Seth Flaum Maryann Brandon |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Italian |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $71,518,503 |
Grumpier Old Men is a 1995 romantic comedy film, and a sequel to the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men. The film stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert. Grumpier Old Men was directed by Howard Deutch, with the screenplay written by Mark Steven Johnson and the original music score composed by Alan Silvestri. The film was Meredith's final motion picture appearance. He was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease and had to be gently coached through his role in the film.
Plot
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The lifelong feud between Max (Walter Matthau) and John (Jack Lemmon) has cooled. Their children, Melanie (Daryl Hannah) and Jacob (Kevin Pollak), have become engaged after a brief relationship. Meanwhile, John is enjoying his marriage to wife Ariel (Ann-Margret).
The spring and summer fishing season is also in full swing in Wabasha, Minnesota, with the annual quest to catch "Catfish Hunter", the lake's largest catfish, consuming the fishing community. However, the local bait shop closed after the death of its proprietor Chuck in the first film. New arrival to Wabasha, Maria Ragetti (Sophia Loren), has purchased the building with the intent of converting it into a fancy Italian restaurant. Max and John join forces to try to sabotage the restaurant and succeed to a point, enough to make Ariel force John to go over to the restaurant and apologize to Maria for what he's done. Originally, John doesn't want to do it, and is encouraged by Max to tell Ariel so, which results in John moving in with Max as Ariel throws him out of the house. John eventually breaks down, and goes to apologize to Maria after realizing that Max lives a slovenly (almost squalor-like) lifestyle at his home.
Things go awry, however, when John and Maria trade shots of grappa over the conversation. He tells her that he's happily married with Ariel for six months. Maria mentions that her marriage with Antonio ended badly before it began. Eventually, John drinks too much and passes out, waking up the next morning in the restaurant, leading Ariel and Max to believe that the two slept together. However, Maria's mother Francesca (Ann Morgan Guilbert) stops the confrontation by revealing three things; the first is that she and John's father are in a relationship, Maria has no interest in John and is in fact infatuated with Max, to everyone's surprise.
While out in his boat one day Max finds Maria on the lake fishing, and the shared interest helps to begin a romance between the two. However, Maria calls it off, thanks to Francesca reminding her of five failed marriages in the past, and Max is bewildered and disappointed.
To complicate things further, Jacob and Melanie's wedding plans are causing the couple stress because of their fathers' apparent inability to plan a proper wedding. After John decides to book "Handsome Hans", Wabasha's "polka king" for the wedding, Melanie finally snaps and she and Jacob get into a huge argument, which results in the wedding being called off and the two to live separately. Upon hearing the news, John and Max call off their truce and reignite their feud.
Once again, Max and John resort to childish pranks to get back at each other, leading Ariel to angrily move out.
In addition, Max had another date scheduled with Maria, but her mother reminds her of past heartbreaks, convincing her not to go. Max then tries in vain to get in contact with her.
Disappointed with the situation, John goes to the lake to fish with his father (Burgess Meredith) and get some advice. However, Grandpa has died on the couch he used to fish on. Max and John bond over his death and the two call off their feud, helping Jacob and Melanie reunite after their brief estrangement. Before leaving to reconcile with Ariel, John convinces Max to try again with Maria and tell her how he really feels.
Max stops to see Maria, who comes clean by telling Max the truth on how many times she's actually been married. Max decides then to explain to Maria he's not like the other 5 men she was with and that he knows how to treat a lady. In telling her how he truly feels, the two rekindle their romance.
Much like the first film, a wedding is to take place at the end. On the way to the wedding, however, Max and John see a fellow fisherman named Sven, who has come in contact with Catfish Hunter and is staggering around bewildered after being unable to catch him. Max convinces John that they should take one more try at catching the fish. John agrees, and the two set out to catch Catfish Hunter. The two manage to reel in the large catfish and have him in the boat, but John says that they should throw him back. The duo then rushes to the church for the wedding, which turns out to be Max's wedding to Maria (which is not revealed until Max and John arrive at the church; it is implied that it is Jacob and Melanie's wedding, but the two had eloped prior to this). Max and Maria are wed and drive away in the limousine to their reception to be held at Maria's restaurant, which will also serve as the town's bait shop again. As in the first film, a trick is played on the newlyweds in the limo on the way to the reception.
Subplots
As in Grumpy Old Men, several subplots are present in Grumpier Old Men. In addition to the sabotage of the restaurant and Max and John's poor wedding planning, Grandpa Gustafson again shows his perverted side. Unlike in the first film, where he had designs on most of the women of Wabasha, in the second film, Grandpa's perverted streak is largely due to his desire to have a relationship with Francesca Ragetti. At one point in the film, it is suggested that he succeeds, with Francesca finally being charmed by his overtures and dropping a rose into the water after his cremated remains are poured into the lake. A second subplot with Grandpa Gustafson concerns his advancing age, as he is 95 and remarks that God must have forgotten about him. (When he dies, John remarks "Looks like God remembered you, Pop.") In the first film, Melanie's daughter Allie was a toddler, but in the second film her character was advanced to grade school age and played by a different actress, with added hints that she did not accept her mother's relationship with Jacob, but that had changed by the end of the movie.
Cast
- Walter Matthau as Max Goldman
- Jack Lemmon as John Gustafson
- Ann-Margret as Ariel Gustafson
- Sophia Loren as Maria Sophia Coletta Raghetti
- Ann Morgan Guilbert as Mama Ragetti
- Burgess Meredith as Grandpa Gustafson
- Daryl Hannah as Melanie Gustafson
- Kevin Pollak as Jacob Goldman
- Katie Sagona as Allie (Melanie's daughter)
Reception
Grumpier Old Men grossed $71 million domestically on a budget of $25 million.[1][2] While some have said that this was less successful than the original, Grumpier Old Men beat its predecessor's total of $70 million and cost $10 million less to make than the original. However, critical reception was not as kind, as the film currently only holds an 18% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. However, the movie holds a 65% "fresh" rating among Rotten Tomatoes' community members.[3][4][5]
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- ^ "FILM REVIEW;2 Short Fuses Pressing Their Luck". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ^ "Grumpier Old Men". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- ^ "MOVIE REVIEW : Stars Add Luster to 'Men's' Contrived Tale". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-06-01.