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Mar 12, 2024 · The Odd Couple, American comedy film, released in 1968, that was an adaptation of Neil Simon’s hit Broadway play, which popularized the comedic conceit of badly matched housemates. After neurotic neat freak Felix Ungar (played by Jack Lemmon ) is kicked out of his house by his frustrated wife, he moves in with his old friend, sportswriter ...
Felix's (Jack Lemmon) wife has left him and he is contemplating suicide. His friends sense his depression and one of them, Oscar (Walter Matthau), volunteers to take him in until he is fine again. The two of them are like chalk and cheese - Oscar is fun-loving, gregarious and slovenly, Felix is a shy, stay-at-home, obsessive-compulsive neat-freak.
The Odd Couple. Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
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. Gene Saks. Director. Neil Simon. Screenplay. Reviews. Discussions.
Show all movies in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 1:10:40 AM, 05/10/2024 . The Odd Couple is 11306 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 7396 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Family Practice but less popular than Gas Light.
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Cast. Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau John Fiedler Herb Edelman David Sheiner Monica Evans Carole Shelley Iris Adrian Billie Bird Angelique Pettyjohn Heywood Hale Broun Larry Haines. 106 mins More at IMDb TMDb. Sign in to log, rate or review. Share.
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.
