They grew up together as envious children and both lived their lives in the same small town, never venturing forth across the land but rather obsessing about local change.
One grew up to teach history and had a steady job for many a year, the other fixing broken down televisions at a time when that was still quite profitable.
In retirement, they quarrel and fish and keep a close eye on the slumbering block, their children stopping by to visit at times with vivid success stories and marital dilemmas.
Compulsively nickling and diming they dynamically forge economic blockades, the intricate precise observant conversation correspondingly generated with grouchy gusto.
When a beautiful belle aging in years suddenly moves in across the street.
With new ideas and jaunty bold reckonings.
Seeking companionship.
Vehement magnitude.
I wonder how Grumpy Old Men has viscerally aged for the last thirty years, is it still talked about in film-loving circles or has it faded with the passage of time?
It was incredibly popular in the early '90s when it first came out, since it showcased well-known cantankerous belovéd old school household names.
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon had brilliantly dazzled for many a year, especially in a well-regarded film my father loved known as The Odd Couple.
It's younger audience had aged since then and was in their twilight years when Grumpy Old Men came out, a brilliant bit of industrious casting also to be found in the Terminator films.
They deliver the curmudgeony goods and directly excel at provoking one another, with agile learnéd indelicate remonstrance wildly engaging in diligent bemusement.
Are these films really just the subject of history choosing which films to watch is different these days?, with Netflix etc. eclipsing television the old school references may be somewhat archaic.
But information is available online for the curious film buff looking to learn more.
We didn't have Wikipedia thirty years ago.
Academically complemented with online encyclopedias.
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