Lemmon and Mathau's finest hour.
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04/01/08
The Odd Couple (1968)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 28 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Synopsis: After being thrown out of his home and marriage, fastidious Felix decides the only thing for him to do is to move in with his best friend, Oscar Madison, a divorced man living alone in an upper eastside apartment. Oscar is a total slob, with week old sandwiches under his pillows, while Felix is a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner
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he plot, nothing more than a premise based on Simon's real-life brother, Danny, goes nowhere, but then it's not really supposed to.
04/01/08
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For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style.
04/01/08
The film still remains fresh, as amazingly the many one-liners and the wacky situation still work.
01/19/07
It's just one hilarious situation after another in this classic comedy about two polar opposites (one compulsively neat, the other a slob) forced to live together.
03/04/06
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Two grown men sharing an apartment . . . and not so much as a mention of the word 'homosexual'? This could only be 1968 . . .
11/20/03
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