My Fellow Americans

My Fellow Americans
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Segal
Screenplay by
Story by
  • E. Jack Kaplan
  • Richard Chapman
Produced byJon Peters
Starring
CinematographyJulio Macat
Edited byWilliam Kerr
Music byWilliam Ross
Production
companies
  • Peters Entertainment
  • Storyline Entertainment
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 20, 1996 (1996-12-20)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$21.5 million
Box office$22.3 million[1]

My Fellow Americans is a 1996 American political comedy film directed by Peter Segal. It stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents, with Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Esther Rolle, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford, Everett McGill, and Jeff Yagher in supporting roles. The film is named after the sentence for the traditional opening of presidential addresses to the American people. Walter Matthau was slated to star in the film, but he dropped out and Garner was chosen to star with Lemmon.

  1. ^ "My Fellow Americans". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 14, 2011.

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