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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781415708538
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415708533
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 25311
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Editorial Review:
Description:
Jack Lemmon won an Oscar. for this dramatic performance, considered by many to be his finest. Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. He'll juggle the books, supply women for clients... and even set fire to his own dress manufacturing factory. He is drawn to an America when life not only had values and heroes, it all seemed worth living and building. But Harry is frightened to break away from the emptiness of his seemingly successful life.
Amazon.com:
There are several films for which Jack Lemmon deserved to win the Oscar--The Apartment and Days of Wine and Roses among them--but it was this low-key entry from 1973 that garnered the gold (following a supporting award for Mister Roberts.) Harry Stoner is a Watergate-era man in the gray flannel suit--even if his is 'Italian silk.' Sure, he's got the Beverly Hills manse, complete with maid, but business is hanging by a thread. When it starts to unravel, he risks losing everything. And finances aren't his only problem. After 30 years, he's still haunted by the war and only wants to talk baseball and big bands. His wife urges him to see a therapist. Phil (Jack Gilford, a fine foil) is Harry's garment-manufacturing partner. Neither is a model of business ethics, but when Harry suggests torching a factory for insurance money, Phil is mortified. He suggests they turn to the Mob, but Harry would prefer a quicker fix. As in The Swimmer, another painful portrait of the American Dream gone bad, John G. Avildsen (who picked up his own statuette for Rocky) takes a revealing snapshot of a dying breed. Like much of Lemmon's best work, it can be hard to watch, but just as hard not to. In retrospect, Harry looks like a dry run for the even more nakedly desperate characters of Glengarry Glen Ross and Short Cuts. If you ever wondered how they got that way--Save the Tiger is your answer. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An achingly beautiful performance by Jack Lemmon....
This movie is like the last of the old-style raw live TV dramas of the '50s, e.g. Marty, Days of Wine & Roses, Requiem for a Heavyweight and the Hustler. Vey well written and directed but above all supremely acted.
Don't miss it, they don't make them like this any more.
Rating: - Classic Early Seventies Soul Searcher
I like the way the movie contrasts the current 70's culture with Lemmon's WWII generational character. There are these pauses in his seemingly Fast-Fowared day (like waiting for an elevator) where he just stares out the window in a trance-like state, before he has to dive into the rest of the day. He has a car phone too, which is quite a luxury at that time, quite different today. I like his quote that it cost him $200.00 a day just to get up in the morning, illustrating the burden he is saddled ... Read More
Rating: - ONE OF JACK LEMMON'S BEST
1973. Written and produced by Steve Shagan and directed by John Avildsen. Academy award for Jack Lemmon as Best Actor. Three years after Elia Kazan's THE ARRANGEMENT, another movie about a man whose life is crumbling.
Rating: - anatomy of a breakdown
The late Jack Lemmon does excellent work here. Performance is powerful, moving.
Recall sitting in a theatre on Hollywood Boulevard years ago and, as the film opened, had that gut feeling that I was in for something special. And guess what? It turned out to be--since Lemmon was awarded the Oscar for his memorable portrayal of a struggling L.A. garment factory owner doing his desperate best to keep afloat.
Jack Gilford was absolutely topnotch as well.
Glad Save the Tiger ... Read More
Rating: - Well done movie to a well done actor
Save the Tiger is a great movie for many reasons. You would wonder first if the tiger here is the star, Lemon, or the factory and second you kind of question yourself about who is saving who and from what. Are we here saving Jack Lemon from a mid life crisis or saving the factory from a financial disaster. It seems to me that Jack lemon at the end decided to save himself from slipping into dissolving his marriage by committing adultery and going into the path of leaving his wife that he loves. He though ... Read More
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