Getting Away With Murder

Buy This Item Getting Away With Murder by Hbo Home Video  Available from Amazon  $9.98  on 11-15-2008     If society won?t punish suspected criminal Max Mueller, then Ethics Professor Jack Lambert will! An hilarious comedy of justice, injustice and just learning to love thy neighbor. Reader Reviews 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.

Getting Away With Murder Available from Amazon Price: $9.98 Updated on 11-15-2008.

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