Lemmon and Mathau's finest hour.
The Odd Couple (1968)
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... 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 compulsive cleaner, constantly vacuuming, dusting and polishing. The question is: Can these men live together with out killing each other?... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 12, 2000
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case - Checkpoint
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1.Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
Reviews
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.
For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style.
The film still remains fresh, as amazingly the many one-liners and the wacky situation still work.
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.
Two grown men sharing an apartment . . . and not so much as a mention of the word 'homosexual'? This could only be 1968 . . .


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