Bradley Whitford, Dan Aykroyd, Everett McGill

Call this "The Odd Couple Goes to the White House." Jack Lemmon and James Garner play ex-presidents in this lousy comedy, each of them having served only one term as chief executive and each the other...( read more  read more... )'s lifelong enemy. The best jokes in the film are front-loaded into the first five minutes. We meet both men living life after the White House, one (Lemmon) making speeches for whoever will front his large fee, while the other (Garner) writes relevant books no one reads. Any time they show up at the same function, they insult each other like snarling schoolboys. It is pretty funny, but after a brief introduction My Fellow Americans goes downhill rapidly, becoming yet another stupid road movie traveled by characters who hate each other. (How many of these is Lemmon going to make?) The jokes get dumber and cruder, the actors embarrass themselves, and the whole enterprise becomes tedious. The DVD release contains production notes, theatrical trailer, bloopers, optional Spanish and French soundtracks, optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, and Dolby audio. --Tom Keogh

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DVD Release Date: August 27, 1997

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  • April 12, 2008
    Jack Lemmon and James Garner are rivals and ex- presidents.
  • March 10, 2008
    A bunch of old guys fighting. It's got some fun stuff, for example the little songs they sing are often stuck in my head.
  • September 29, 2007
    great flick, very entertaining
  • September 15, 2007
    Cute.
  • March 19, 2007
    Excruciatingly unfunny.
  • October 19, 2009
    Lemmon & Garner were hilarious together
  • September 15, 2009
    There's this one scene where Lemmon can't hear and he says "Did you say 'the crops'? We say that to my mom all the time.
  • May 2, 2009
    Those two old pros, Jack Lemmon and James Garner, in their only film together provide quite a few laughs in what would normally be a very serious subject, a constitutional crisis.
    Two former presidents, Lemmon a Republican and Garner a Democrat, have a real nasty rivalry going. ...( read more)But when current president Dan Ackroyd tries to pin a kickback in a defense contract scandal on his fellow Republican Lemmon things get good and nasty. Garner gets into it when he starts checking on which Republican really is the crooked one and stumbles on the murdered defense contractor.

    After that when the two presidents are nearly killed when a government helicopter blows up, they are on the run. They are forced into an alliance of convenience.
    Despite this description, it is in fact a comedy with these two men who even as ex-Presidents are used to having everything done for them. Quite amusing indeed when they're forced out on their own. It's funny, but there are some trenchant comments about the state of politics and life in general in America at the turn of the new millennium. Lauren Bacall is in this oh too briefly as Lemmon's wife and Dan Ackroyd is the current president with John Heard as his Dan Quayle like Vice President.
  • April 4, 2009
    Grumpy Old Men in Washington. Kinda sweet.
  • January 29, 2009
    Such a funny film which jack lemmon always is but added to garner and akroyd,its presidents douglas and kramer on the run cause theres a plot to have them killed to make the new president's secret go away!

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  • In the film My Fellow Americans,what famous character was the soldier that saved Lemmon and Garner dressed as when he first met them?  Answer »
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