Getting Away With Murder (1996)

Plot of Getting Away With Murder: Jack Lambert is a professor of ethics at some university. His next door neighbour is Max Mueller, an old German whose daughter, Inga, and his grandsons live with him. Jack unexpectedly becomes romantically involved with Gail, a doctor and in time they arrange to marry. Meanwhile Max is revealed to be Karl Luger, a former death camp guard, and Jack finds that he is going to escape to South Africa. Unable to accept the situation, and suffering from sleepless nights, Jack decides to murder Max, by injecting his apples on his apple tree with cyanide. Max dies and Jack is joyful, until it is discovered that Max was not Karl Luger at all. Distressed, Jack believes he must atone for his action, so he breaks off his engagement to Gail and takes up with Inga, but in time Inga tells him that Max really was a war criminal. Oh dear.

Content: No nudity, but Jack and Inga are seen doing it in dim light. Some drinking but mostly Max is seen drinking apple juice, made from his own apples. Jack lectures his students, and in his spare time is a drummer in a local band, which Gail admires. Jack and Gail romance. Jack creeps about in the night in Max’s garden injecting the apples with cyanide. Jack and Inga’s relationship is painful.

A View: This is the second film I have reviewed which got 0% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. The critics who commented suggested that making a comedy about the Holocaust was just not on. I’m not quite sure about that but it seemed to me that the comedic action was very flat, even with Dan Akroyde doing his best. I did not laugh at all, so probably not a watch, even for nothing, and definitely not with you grandparent who fought in France on D-Day.

Fun Fact: Try as I might I was unable to find any engaging bit of trivia for your enjoyment.