Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy
Release: 1964-07-22
Director: David Swift
Writers: James Fritzell , Everett Greenbaum , David Swift , Jack Finney
Language: English
Stars: Jack Lemmon , Romy Schneider , Dorothy Provine , Mike Connors , Edward Andrews , Louis Nye , Robert Q. Lewis , Joyce Jameson , Anne Seymour (1909–1988) , Charles Lane
Runtime: 130 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 nominations total
AKA: Хороший сосед Сэм , Um Amor de Vizinho (Brazil) , ちょっとご主人貸して (Japan) , Scusa, me lo presti tuo marito? (Italy) , Préstame tu marido (Spain) , Pozajmi mi svoga muza , Good Neighbor Sam (United States of America) , Gerasis kaimynas Semas (Lithuania) , Zamieńmy się mężami (Poland) , I mama... o babas... kai i eromeni... (Greece) , Vuoroin vieraissa (Finland) , Leih mir deinen Mann (Austria) , Daneise mou ton andra sou (Greece) , Sam el sinverguenza (Argentina) , Lån mig din mand (Denmark) , Sam el sinvergüenza (Mexico) , Har ni sett maken? (Sweden) , Good Neighbor Sam (Canada) , Bunul meu vecin Sam (Romania) , Empresta-me o Teu Marido (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Good Neighbor Sam (United Kingdom) , Prête-moi ton mari (France, French Republic) , Good Neighbor Sam , Leih mir deinen Mann , Préstame a tu marido (Spain) , Good Neighbor Sam (Canada)
Plot: Sam Bissel is a wholesome family man with a loving wife, Min, and two loving daughters. They lead a happy suburban life. The only part of Sam's life that he is not happy about is his job as a lowly cog in the art department of the advertising firm of Burke & Hare. Sam's professional life takes a major turn when he is made executive of the Nurdlinger Dairy account. Simon Nurdlinger is a wholesome family man who wants a wholesome family man with wholesome family ideals heading his account, Sam the only one in Burke & Hare that fits the bill. Sam's home life also takes a major turn when Min's college friend, Janet Lagerlof, moves in next door. Janet stands to inherit $15 million from her grandfather's estate, but the will has a clause that she must be happily married to inherit the money. Janet is technically divorced from Howard Ebbets, and states that getting back with Howard is not worth $15 million. But when Jack Bailey and Irene Krump - two of Janet's relatives who would like to find any excuse to contest the will - come by for an unexpected visit, Janet impetuously introduces Sam as her husband, Howard. Things get more complicated for Sam when he is later forced to introduce Janet as Mrs. Bissel to both Burke and Nurdlinger. Sam and by association Min go along with the ruse, and for their troubles Janet offers to give them $1 million of her inheritance. After that, further complications occur: Janet notices a private investigator snooping around the neighborhood, the P.I. hired by Janet's relatives; Howard, Janet's ex-husband comes back wanting to reconcile with her; and without Sam's knowledge, the Nurdlinger creative includes billboards featuring a wholesome couple espousing the goodness of Nurdlinger milk, that wholesome couple being Sam and Janet as Mr. & Mrs. Sam Bissel. They just have to continue dealing with these complications until the legal hearing. But Min may just have had enough of this plan before they get the money.
IMDB:tt0058153