{"id":8369,"date":"2026-02-17T09:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:23:19","slug":"the-sunshine-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2026\/02\/the-sunshine-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunshine Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>1975, United States, 111 min.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willy Clark (Walter Matthau) and Al Lewis (George Burns) were vaudeville superstars for nearly 40 years. Now, they\u2019re relics. Willy, loud and quick to anger, believes he is a comedy legend, but he can\u2019t book a gig\u2014or find it if he has one. (An audition for a potato chips commercial becomes an exasperating farce.) Al, quiet and unassuming, happily lives with his daughter\u2019s family in the New Jersey suburbs. When Willy\u2019s agent-nephew (Richard Benjamin) lands the pair a spot on a network TV special, the duo reunite. There\u2019s just a small wrinkle: they can\u2019t stand each other. This typically pleasant, thoughtful Neil Simon comedy is driven by Matthau\u2019s manic, hilarious performance and the movie\u2019s earnest belief that a friendship can endure slights past and present. Also remade as a TV movie in 1996, starring Peter Falk and Woody Allen. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Willy Clark (Walter Matthau) and Al Lewis (George Burns) were vaudeville superstars for nearly 40 years. Now, they\u2019re relics.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2026\/02\/the-sunshine-boys\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sunshine Boys<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,77,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-comedy-drama","category-friendships-cinema"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8371,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}