Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau go together like a couple of old shoes, broken in and comfortable, but still able to take a shine.
Their rhythms of speech and their body language create a kind of harmony. Each fills in for the other. The Odd Couple could have been written for them, and Grumpy Old Men probably was.
They play a couple of neighbors in a snowbound Wabasha, Minn., neighborhood.
They ve been feuding for years, mostly because they like each other so much. They trade insults, dismissals, snubs and dire imprecations. Then they go ice-fishing together. When they go fishing together, that means they go separately, but adjacently, so they can glower at one another.