Monday, January 8, 2024

Going In Style (1979)



Released December 25th in the US.
Filmed in New York and Nevada.
The story: Joe, Al, and Willie are three elderly men who share a home together.
They get by on welfare assistance, but barely.
One day, Joe decides he is sick and tired of sitting in the park every day, looking at the same old things.
He is also sick of suffering financially.
Joe comes up with an idea. Joe wants to hold up the local bank and he wants to take Al and Willie along as his accomplices.
Al and Willie think Joe's idea is a crazy one, but then again, they really have nothing to lose.
Stars George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan, Pamela Payton Wright, Siobhan Keegan, Brian Neville, Constantine Hartofolis, Jean Shevlin, James Manis, Tito Goya, William Pabst, Christopher Wynkoop, John McComb, Melvin Jurdem, Joseph Sullivan, Bob Markoff
Directed by (& story partly written) Martin Brest
Rated PG
COMEDY/DRAMA

"Jesus Christ. Crying and pissing your pants, like a 3-month-old baby. You know, I guess the whole goddamned cycle is complete now."

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