Getting Away With Murder

Starring:Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Jack Lemmon, Bonnie Hunt, Brian Kerwin, Jerry Adler, Andy Romano, Robert Fields, J.C. Quinn, Susan Forristal, Marissa Chibas, Jon Korkes, Kathleen Marshall, Jacqueline Klein, Alex Appel, Jillian Hirasawa, Rino Romano, Jack Jessup, Judy Sinclair, Dave Nichols
Director: Harvey Miller
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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HOLOCAUST HUMOR FALLS FLAT
Look elsewhere for laughs.
title of review
Jack Lemmon's worst film
Good in itself.

Getting Away With Murder
Starring: Dan Aykroyd , Lily Tomlin , Jack Lemmon , Bonnie Hunt , and Brian Kerwin
Director: Harvey Miller
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00021R7DK
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Customer Reviews:

HOLOCAUST HUMOR FALLS FLAT.......2005-09-17

Trying to milk any kind of laughs from the Holocaust and the plight of a Nazi war criminal is questionable as it is, and the people behind this travesty didn't achieve any kind of success. The movie follows Dan Aykroyd (another one of his phoned in performances) who discovers he is living next door to a suspected escaped Nazi war criminal (Jack Lemmon, looking both tired and bored). When Lemmon tells Aykroyd he is going back to Ecuador to escape this so called fabrication, Aykroyd decides to take matters into his own hand and poisons Lemmon with cyanide apples. The plot takes a few twists and turns, but ultimately falls flat on its face. Lily Tomlin shows up as Lemmon's daughter with an accent right out of Laugh-In; and poor Bonnie Hunt is wasted as the doctor who ends up becoming Aykroyd's fiancee. Few films that try to invoke humor out of serious situations work (M*A*S*H is the most noticeable exception and it worked because its humor came as part of the situations and plotlines, and was never intended to minimize the atrocities it parallelled). GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER is a film that never should have made it's attempt.

Look elsewhere for laughs........2005-06-23

Getting Away with Murder tells the story of Jack Lambert, a college ethics professor, who discovers that his neighbor may be a nazi war criminal. Dan Ackroyd is the professor and Jack Lemmon is the suspected war criminal. Ackroyd is known for being a funny man from his Saturday Night Live days and films such as The Blues Brothers. He is not funny in Getting Away with Murder. Viewers looking for humor in this film will be sadly disappointed.

Even though I was not amused, I was interested in the story of Lambert(Akroyd) deciding to take into his own hands the punishment for the war criminal. As a professor of ethics he should know better than to become judge, jury, and executioner. With all the safeguards in our legal system, we still make mistakes. Without safeguards, disaster must follow, as it does in this movie.

The plot has many twists and turns, none of them humorous, before the final conclusion -- ironic, but again, not funny. To say more about what happens as Akroyd hatches his plot to kill the criminal might spoil this film for viewers who want to decide for themselves if the movie is as bad as all the critics say it is.

I must admit that this film was just good enough to keep me watching until the implausible and unsatisfying end.

title of review.......2004-12-08

I think there's two kinds of good movies. The kind that keep you interested and entertained while you're watching, but don't provoke much afterthought, and the kind that can be trying to the patience while you're watching, but leave more of an impression. Film buffs are generally only interested in the latter. This film is the former, and as someone with a short attention span who isn't looking at films as something that should change one's life, I found this film to be a very satisfying viewing experience.
At worst it's an engaging story you can sit through without having to endure any boring parts, at best an intellectually stimulating look at the internal ethical dialogue a man explores when faced with a difficult situation, and the places his choices lead him.

Jack Lemmon's worst film.......2002-07-07

...I still cannot believe that I have actually seen this film. Just peeped in, because of Lemmon.

... Take my advice: Stay away from this film at any price!
Walk miles and miles in order NOT to see it!

...Watch more EARLY films of Jack Lemmon: "The great race" and "Under the Yum Yum tree" are good for starters. And if you are sophisticated enough to enjoy "Some like it hot", "The Apartment" and "The fortune cookie" you may laugh at yourself for ever having watched "Getting away with murder".

Good in itself........2001-10-22

this movie is well controlled and not aimed for a simple fun.
the storyline is interresting and satirizes a moralism in certain circumstances. this movie can be excellent if you possiblely don't have any preconception or image about the famous actors.

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