
Out To Sea was the ninth on screen pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, which first began in 1966 in Billy Wilder’s The Fortune Cookie.
Out to Sea is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs. It is the final film role of Donald O’Connor, Gloria DeHaven and Edward Mulhare, and the penultimate film of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a film duo.
Compulsive gambler Charlie Gordon cons his brother-in-law, widower Herb Sullivan, whose wife Susie was Charlie’s sister, to take an all expenses-paid luxury Holland America Mexican cruise. The catch, which Charlie does not reveal to Herb until the ship has left port, is that they are required to work as dance hosts. They must sleep in a cramped cabin in the bowels of the ship, and if they do not dance, they will be fired and have to pay nearly $3,000 (actually more than $5,000) for the cruise or get thrown off the ship.
‘Out to Sea’ supplies touristy scenery, familiar players and enough rumba scenes for 10 weddings.
The incomparable JACK LEMMON was born 100 years ago. Film Forum celebrates the centennial of his birth with an extensive two-week series of his finest work including THE APARTMENT, SOME LIKE IT HOT, THE FORTUNE COOKIE, IRMA LA DOUCE, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, AVANTI!, GRUMPY OLD MEN, and more.