Last night I ran across a movie on cable and it was hilarious. Poignant and sad but funny too.. The movie was “I’M NOT RAPPAPORT” with Walter Matthau and Ozzie Davis. Both characters are in their 80's and they spend most of their days in Central Park. The two meet while sharing a park bench and their adventures begin.
This is a sweet film about being old and vulnerable but fighting back against the ravages of time while retaining a vivid imagination and a sense of humor.
Watch this film if you get a chance
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from Internet Movie Data Base:
“Old Nat Moyer (Walter Mathau) is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, (“OzzieDavis”) who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'
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and from Walter Matthau's official web page:
"According to his family and friends, some of Walter's best whoppers were: he was in line of succession to the throne of England...his grandfather was a defrocked priest... his grandmother was a Chinese stowaway (he claimed that is how his famly ended up in America)...his father was a jewel thief and Russian spy...and that his middle name was Foghorn.
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"Even Walter could not have guessed how many people would fall for what has been come his most global and enduring joke yet. When Walter died in the summer of 2000, newspapers around the world printed obitutaries and tribute articles stating that Walter's real names was Matuschanskayasky. Apparently no one blinked at this outlandish concoction - and Walter's impish joke slipped past all the fact-checkers."
7 comments:
Thanks for the info on Walter Mathau. I've always loved the crusty old characters that he plays and that's a riot about his obituary.
Matthau was a character, on and off the screen. I never heard that one about the name, though, and it is priceless. He must have been laughing from beyond.
Thanks for the smiles, the information and the lead to a good movie... I am going to enjoy them all :)
Yeah, Walter was a character on and off the screen; but so true to form...he was one of the most kind-hearted and giving people around. I've read that many times before and since his passing. One of the things I loved so much was the incredible friendship between him and Jack Lemmon, who was always one of my favorites. What a beautiful thing to see between the two of them; and something that transformed from working together in movies to their real lives.
Dead or alive (me or him) I LOVE Walter Mathau. This film was great. The classic old geezers have dropped like flies. Who can take their place?
Hope all is well in your world, m'dear!
That's a funny bit about his name. Just goes to prove that skepticism about anything associated with a comic is probably the better part of wisdom.
I always loved Walter Mathau. He reminded me, in many ways, of my dad.
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