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Toi et moi

Original title: The War Between Men and Women
  • 1972
  • PG
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
879
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Jack Lemmon, Jason Robards, Lisa Eilbacher, Moosie Drier, Lisa Gerritsen, and Barbara Harris in Toi et moi (1972)
ComedyDrama

A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and even... Read allA sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.

  • Director
    • Melville Shavelson
  • Writers
    • Melville Shavelson
    • Danny Arnold
    • James Thurber
  • Stars
    • Jack Lemmon
    • Barbara Harris
    • Jason Robards
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    879
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Melville Shavelson
    • Writers
      • Melville Shavelson
      • Danny Arnold
      • James Thurber
    • Stars
      • Jack Lemmon
      • Barbara Harris
      • Jason Robards
    • 13User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon
    • Peter Wilson
    Barbara Harris
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    • Terry Kozlenko
    Jason Robards
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    • Stephen Kozlenko
    Herb Edelman
    Herb Edelman
    • Howard Mann
    Lisa Gerritsen
    Lisa Gerritsen
    • Linda Kozlenko
    Moosie Drier
    Moosie Drier
    • David Kozlenko
    Severn Darden
    Severn Darden
    • Doctor Harris
    Lisa Eilbacher
    Lisa Eilbacher
    • Caroline Kozlenko
    Lucille Meredith
    Lucille Meredith
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    Ruth McDevitt
    Ruth McDevitt
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    Richard Gates
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    Lea Marmer
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    Olive Dunbar
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    • Director
      • Melville Shavelson
    • Writers
      • Melville Shavelson
      • Danny Arnold
      • James Thurber
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    alopo

    Entertaining, touching at times

    Very cute, with clever interweaving of cartoon and live action ( particularly for an older movie. Lemmon does an outstanding job, as does Gerritsen. Many endearing scenes, peppered with mostly good fun throughout.
    7boblipton

    One Man, And One Woman, And One Flower

    Jack Lemmon is a misanthropic cartoonist who hates women, dogs, children and is going blind. He's just published a book called THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, and is enduring the inevitable cocktail party where people tell him that they don't understand his jokes and he can't draw. There he meets Barbara Harris, a divorced woman with several children, and they fall awkwardly into love.

    I first encountered James Thurber in the late 1960s and was largely enchanted. I think his misanthropy was one of dissatisfaction with people's inability to be forthright and strong and competent, and the fact that he couldn't draw a woman crouching on a staircase.... or the bookcase it became. A key figure in the New Yorker magazine, his talent was that of the second rank. A couple of stories survive, a couple of cartoons, but his misanthropy, masquerading as misogyny, does not play well anymore.

    So this is a bewildered romance, between the Thurber Man and the Thurber Woman, and it's a mildly depressing comedy, with the high point Jack Lemmon wandering through a gallery of giant drawings, while he narrates his book to Lisa Gerritsen. I think it captures Thurber's works well, given the quality of the adult cast, which includes Jason Robards and Herb Edelman.
    6moonspinner55

    Unfulfilled comedic and dramatic quirks result in a peculiarly benign film...

    One of Jack Lemmon's most innocuous pictures. He plays a professional humorist in New York City, a cynic and confirmed bachelor quickly losing his eyesight, who thinks very little of marriage, women and dogs. How soon do you think it will be before bookstore manager (and marriage-minded divorcée) Barbara Harris gets him to the altar? She's got the dog, plus three kids and a puppy dog-like former husband, but what's in it for Lemmon? We are never sure what motivates him to take on this brood, to attempt winning over the children, to compete for attention with the ex-spouse. It isn't incredible that Jack should fall for Miss Harris (she's winsome and a little daft, despite an ugly hairdo), but it is fairly difficult to believe Lemmon's character would take this plunge--and there's nothing in the script to convince us otherwise. The production is colorful, the animation interesting (if not amusing) and the acting very fine (particularly by young Lisa Gerritsen), however the essence of a plausible story is missing. Based on the writings of James Thurber, screenwriters Danny Arnold (who also produced) and Melville Shavelson (who also directed) shift from satire to the more outré, silly kind of TV comedy without grounding the scenario in a bittersweet style of realism. As such, the movie is one-part comedy (with satirical inflections), one-part drama (with pathos) and one-part character study (disguised as a family's journey). It isn't any wonder the end results are cute, yet iffy. Shavelson, Arnold and Gerritsen had all previously tackled Thurber on the short-lived television series "My World and Welcome To It". **1/2 from ****
    6ozma-2

    Jack Lemmon's character is loosely based on that of James Thurber

    The title of the film comes from a story told in drawings - The War Between Men and Women - whose author was the famous American humorist, James Thurber (1894-1961). Thurber's most famous work is the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" which was made into a movie starring Danny Kaye in 1947. A new version of "Mitty" is in production.

    The character of Peter Wilson played by Jack Lemmon in this film suffers from failing eyesight which also plagued Thurber and contributed to his unique drawing style. This film was probably inspired by William Windom's portrayal of a Thurber-like character in a TV series broadcast in 1969 called My World and Welcome To It which is a title of one of Thurber's books. Windom went on to do a one-man stage performance of Thurber's works including some animation of some of Thurber's drawings. At the end of The War Between Men and Women we see one of these animations, an anti-war piece by Thurber called "The Last Flower".
    3zeemanguy

    Probably Not Worth Watching

    Unless you are trying to see all of Jack Lemmon's films you should probably skip this film. Lemmon plays an almost blind cartoonist who is getting progressively worse. He has a weird relationship with Barbara Harris's character. She was formerly married to Jason Robards. The movie is not funny though it is supposed to be a comedy. It didn't really have any point or redeeming feature. 3 out of 10.

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    • Trivia
      Lisa Gerritsen played the same character (different name) in the 1969 TV series "My World and Welcome to It".
    • Quotes

      Peter Edward Wilson: [aside, to audience, about speaker of overheard comment] Author of "Kiss Me, Kill Me, Buy Me, Love Me", I think that's the title. Or possibly it's "Buy Me, Take Me, Cut Me, Burn Me". I don't know, but at any rate you get the idea. It's a romantic novel.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Lovelace (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      You And Me
      Music by Marvin Hamlisch

      Lyrics by Howard Liebling

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    • Release date
      • February 22, 1973 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The War Between Men and Women
    • Production companies
      • Jalem Productions
      • Cinema Center Films
      • Four D Productions
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,404,738
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 50m(110 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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