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- 1968
- G
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1968
- G
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.
Directed By: Gene Saks
Written By: Neil Simon
- 1968
- G
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1968
- G
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
The Odd Couple
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Summary Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.
Directed By: Gene Saks
Written By: Neil Simon
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
86
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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What makes the film so charming is the comic interplay between Matthau and Lemmon.
Revisiting Saks’ screen version nearly 50 years later is like a class in how comedy and storytelling evolve, and how some aspects of a story endure over time, while others get sloughed away.
The Odd Couple, Neil Simon's smash legit comedy, has been turned into an excellent film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Simon's somewhat expanded screenplay retains the broad, as well as the poignant, laughs inherent in the rooming together of two men whose marriages are on the rocks.
Playwright Neil Simon occasionally takes off his clowns' masks to show the humans beneath. In doing so, he has made his Odd Couple real people, with enough substance to cast shadows alongside the jokes.
Felix and Oscar are now part of the American mythos.
For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style.
Saks takes Neil Simon's play pretty much as it comes, but with Lemmon and Matthau to watch, and a generous quota of one-liners, who needs direction?
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Based on 17 User Ratings
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures
Release Date May 16, 1968
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating G
Genres
Tagline Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are The Odd Couple
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Laurel Awards
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
