The only successful adaptation of a Neil Simon play.
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04/01/08
The Odd Couple (1968)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:30
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman
Director: Gene Saks
Reviews for The Odd Couple
Top CriticLemmon and Mathau's finest hour.
04/01/08
Top CriticAn irresistible double act from Lemmon and Matthau.
01/26/06
Top Critiche 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
Top CriticThe Neil Simon comedy that lit up Broadway for more than two years shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation.
04/27/09
Top CriticWhen critics discuss chemistry, that onscreen magic that occurs between perfectly paired actors, the electricity exemplified by Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon is a textbook illustration of same.
03/09/09
Corny, not the least bit risqué, but really good fun.
02/13/01
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
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
Acting is all: Lemmon and Matthau are terrific in their first teaming in this highly amusing comedy, which is sharply written by Neil Simon but poorly directed by theater helmer Gene Saks.
03/15/09
No review available.
12/10/03
Comedy at its best.
06/13/03
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
...it's still the original movie that best captures the essence of the characters and story.
03/07/09
No review available.
03/15/04
No review available.
01/02/04
The key to the movie is its stars... it is Matthau's reserved yet committed man's man that gives the film its comedic edge.
04/18/09
No review available.
04/07/04
What's not to like about this classic film which features two of our most beloved actors at their best?
08/06/02
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