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Grumpy Old Men (film)

1993 US romantic comedy film by Donald Petrie

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Mark Steven Johnson, and starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Ossie Davis, Buck Henry and Christopher McDonald. It was followed by the sequel Grumpier Old Men. Grumpy Old Men was released by Warner Bros. on December 25, 1993. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and grossed $80.5 million against a $35.1 million budget.

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“Grumpy Old Men (film)” enters the record as 1993 US romantic comedy film by Donald Petrie. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grumpy, film and romantic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Grumpy, film and romantic.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grumpy Old Men (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.