Release Date: Jan 1, 1979 Wide
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Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and fending off obnoxious children. It's a dull life, and finally Joe is driven to suggest something radical to break the monotony; why not go on a stick up? None of them have a criminal history (though Joe claims he "did some stealing during
Jan 1, 1979 Wide
Mar 30, 2004
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Two things about the film are frankly remarkable, however: the richness of its imagery and George Burns' understated performance.
Three veterans in a spotlight performance.
A funny and deeply moving film, the three stars are a joy to watch. Strasberg says so little, and yet he is often the center of the scene. Carney straddles comedy and drama as brilliantly as he did in Harry and Tonto. Burns is the real surprise here, holding his own, hysterically funny, coldly calculating, heartaching
March 16, 2008One of my favorites as a kid, it's about three senior citizens who want to stage a bank robbery before they die. When they start to pass away,that's when it becomes a tearjerker.
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