The Odd Couple (1968)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Gene Saks
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Synopsis:
A slovenly divorcé sports writer's monthly poker game is disrupted when one of their number, a hypochondriac with OCD, arrives suicidally depressed from his marriage breakup. To save Felix from himself, Oscar lets him move in, but it is only a matter of time before this marriage, too, ends in divorce.
Review:
Neil Simon's notable Sixties success taps into the era's preoccupation with divorce rates among the interwar generation, and has fun with gags involving suicide, gender roles and a pair of giddy, free-loving English sisters with the Wildean names of Gwendoline and Cecily. It all works moderately well for the screen, with some perfunctory opening out, though this is a film which stands or falls on its performances; in which respect it does not disappoint, with Lemmon and Matthau reunited from their success with The Fortune Cookie.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Gene Saks
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Synopsis:
A slovenly divorcé sports writer's monthly poker game is disrupted when one of their number, a hypochondriac with OCD, arrives suicidally depressed from his marriage breakup. To save Felix from himself, Oscar lets him move in, but it is only a matter of time before this marriage, too, ends in divorce.
Review:
Neil Simon's notable Sixties success taps into the era's preoccupation with divorce rates among the interwar generation, and has fun with gags involving suicide, gender roles and a pair of giddy, free-loving English sisters with the Wildean names of Gwendoline and Cecily. It all works moderately well for the screen, with some perfunctory opening out, though this is a film which stands or falls on its performances; in which respect it does not disappoint, with Lemmon and Matthau reunited from their success with The Fortune Cookie.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 105m
Director: Gene Saks
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Synopsis:
A slovenly divorcé sports writer's monthly poker game is disrupted when one of their number, a hypochondriac with OCD, arrives suicidally depressed from his marriage breakup. To save Felix from himself, Oscar lets him move in, but it is only a matter of time before this marriage, too, ends in divorce.
Review:
Neil Simon's notable Sixties success taps into the era's preoccupation with divorce rates among the interwar generation, and has fun with gags involving suicide, gender roles and a pair of giddy, free-loving English sisters with the Wildean names of Gwendoline and Cecily. It all works moderately well for the screen, with some perfunctory opening out, though this is a film which stands or falls on its performances; in which respect it does not disappoint, with Lemmon and Matthau reunited from their success with The Fortune Cookie.