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The Odd Couple is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, produced by Howard W. Koch and written by Neil Simon, based on his 1965 play. It stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two divorced men—neurotic neat-freak Felix Ungar and fun-loving slob Oscar Madison—who decide to live together.
The Odd Couple: Directed by Gene Saks. With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman. A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.
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NEW. When fussy Felix (Jack Lemmon) becomes suicidal over his impending divorce, he accepts an offer to move in with his best friend, messy Oscar (Walter Matthau). Felix drives Oscar crazy with ...
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Reviews. The Odd Couple. Comedy. 106 minutes ‧ G ‧ 1968. Roger Ebert. June 17, 1968. 3 min read. Two of the most unlucky words associated with the movies are “screen version.” We get the screen version of every best seller, Broadway musical, famous battle and criminal career in sight.
The Odd Couple on Pluto TV | Classics | | Based on Neil Simon's hit Broadway play, The Odd Couple matches prim, compulsively neat Felix (Tony Randall) and gruff, sloppy Oscar (Jack Klugman), as divorced men comically struggling to live together in the same New York City apartment.
Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau), a divorced, sloppy sportswriter, invites Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon), a newly separated, fastidious photographer, to share his apartment.
Following the collapse of his marriage, TV newswriter Felix Ungar decides to commit suicide in a cheap hotel room near Times Square. He fails at even this, however, and dejectedly makes his way to the weekly poker game being held at the Riverside Drive apartment of his best friend, Oscar Madison, a divorced sportswriter.
A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. Felix's (Jack Lemmon) wife has left him and he is contemplating suicide.
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
