Getting Away with Murder (1996 film)

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Getting Away with Murder
Directed by	Harvey Miller
Produced by	Penny Marshall Frank Price
Written by	Harvey Miller
Starring	Dan Aykroyd Jack Lemmon Lily Tomlin Bonnie Hunt
Music by	John Debney
Cinematography	Frank Tidy
Distributed by	Savoy Pictures
Release date(s)	1996
Running time	92 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Getting Away with Murder is a 1996 comedy film written and directed by Harvey Miller. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin and Bonnie Hunt.

This was the final project for veteran writer and director Harvey Miller.^[1]

1 Plot
2 Reviews
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Jack Lambert's (Dan Aykroyd) neighbor Max Mueller (Jack Lemnon) is revealed on the TV news to be the escaped Nazi war criminal Karl Luger who was sentenced to death by the courts. Under the constant duress of the news media's allegations, Mueller plans to flee to South America.

Angered that Mueller might never pay for his crimes, Lambert takes the drastic step of poisoning him by injecting cyanide into some of the fruit in Mueller's apple tree, from which he regularly makes freshly juiced apple juice. At first the police believe it's a suicide, which upsets Lambert so much that he mails them a cryptic letter to reveal that it was actually a murder to carry out the court sentence and to revenge all the lives taken.

And then the plot takes several not so comedic twists.^[1]^[2]^[3] The TV news, again, reveals that Mueller was mis-identified, he's innocent. Feeling guilty, Lambert does penance by dumping his fiancee Gail (Bonnie Hunt) and marrying Mueller's daughter Inga (Lily Tomlin). However, after the wedding, Lambert receives information assuring him of Mueller's guilt.

[edit] Reviews

It received poor reviews and was panned by critics.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Some of the elements that were faulted in varying ways include: Nazi war criminals, TV news, vigilantism, poisoned apples.