Hmm … I had a feeling this would leave me with little to say and I’m sad to say I was right. While Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine are perfectly fine here and the script gave me a few through the nose sniggers, I couldn’t help but find myself wondering where the classic status comes from. It seems to me the movie is 2 hours of a man finally telling a bunch of bullies to step off, with a little suicide in the last third. I’d seen the champagne scene before, of course, and again, though it’s clever, I never before saw it as heartstoppingly powerful as others seemed to, and I can’t say having seen the whole production that I’m any wiser. I guess it’s one of those that’s simply not for me.

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