Perfect Gentlemen (film)


Perfect Gentlemen is a 1978 American made-for-television comedy crime film starring Lauren Bacall, Ruth Gordon, Sandy Dennis and Lisa Pelikan. The film, produced and directed by Jackie Cooper from a screenplay written by Nora Ephron, was filmed on location in Claremont, California and Hollywood, California from October 27, 1977 to November 1977.It originally premiered on March 14, 1978 on CBS.

Plot

Three women with totally different backgrounds who share a common bond: each needs a large sum of money and each has a husband serving time at a maximum security prison. Lizzie Martin has been instructed by her husband Ed to deliver a $1 million bribe in order to get him an instant parole; however, when she learns he has been having an affair with his secretary, Lizzie wants to disappear but fears for her life if she doesn't carry out his instructions.
Sophie Rosenman needs money to save the family's bankrupt delicatessen; Annie Cavagnaro needs money because she's pregnant, and Lizzie could use the funds to escape from Ed, so the three women devise an elaborate scheme to deliver the bribe money and then steal it back. Mrs. Cavagnaro, Annie's mother-in-law, joins the trio when they discover they need her because of her safe-cracking expertise.

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