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7.5
7.6
Director: Gene Saks
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Based on the play by Neil Simon
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fielder, Herb Edelman, David Scheiner, Larry Haines, Monica Evans and Carole Shelley
Divorcees Felix and Oscar move in together when their marriages break up. They soon discover their personalities and housekeeping rules are explosively incompatible.
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81
6.9
6.9
Director: Bob Fosse
Based on the stage musical 'Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved' written by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Barbara Bouchet, Sammy Davis, Jr., Suzanne Charny and Ben Vereen
Taxi dancer Charity Hope Valentine continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
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131
7.8
7.4
Director: Herbert Ross
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Marsha Mason, Richard Dreyfuss, Quinn Cummings, Barbara Rhoades, Powers Boothe and Nicol Williamson
Divorced ex-dancer Paula McFadden, has small daughter Lucy to support. They must start their life anew when Paula's latest lover abandons her to pursue his career.
Further complicating their lives is the arrival of egotistical actor Elliot Garfield who sublet her Manhattan apartment from her wayward boyfriend. Despite their initial hostility, this unlikely pair discovers romance as they help each other cope with the hardships of life in the big city.
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39
6.7
6.6
Director: Arthur Hiller
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Based on the play by Neil Simon
Starring: Walter Matthau, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Maureen Stapelton, Louise Sorel and Alan North
Three separate stories set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
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209
7
7
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Director: Gene Saks
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Based on the play by Neil Simon
Starring: Jane Fonda, Mildred Natwick, Charles Boyer, Herbert Edelman, Mabel Albertson and Fritz Feld
After a whirlwind romance and 6-day honeymoon at a luxory hotel, newlyweds Paul Bratter, a button-downed, stuffed-shirted lawyer and Corie Bratter, a bubbly, spontaneous extrovert, willing to try anything, move into their run-down New York apartment.
They soon realise that they have very little in common.
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15
8
6.5
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Director: Glenn Jordan
Based on the play 'The Gingerbread Lady' by Neil Simon
Starring: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett and David Dukes
An alcoholic Broadway actress tries to stay sober and rebuild her life while trying to patch up her relationship with her teenage daughter and deal with the problems of her friends: an overly vain woman who fears the loss of her looks and a gay actor relegated to small roles in third-rate shows.
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60
7.1
7.1
Director: Herbert Ross
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Carol Arthur, F. Murray Abraham, Howard Hesseman, Ron Rifkin and Fritz Feld
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
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75
6.7
7
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Ron Carey, Ann Prentiss, Paul Dooley and Johnny Brown
George Kellerman and his wife make a trip to New York, where he is about to take a new job. The journey turns out to be a trip to hell - whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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84
6.2
6.2
California Suite (1978)
Director: Herbert Ross
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Herbert Edelman, Gloria Gifford, Sheila Frazier and Dana Plato
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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319
7.3
7.4
Murder by Death (1976)
Director: Robert Moore
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Peter Falk, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Eileen Brennan and Truman Capote
Millionaire Lionel Twain invites the five most brilliant private eyes to a dinner that turns into a murder investigation with a million-dollar prize going to the one who solves the case.
kathy's rating:
104
7.2
7
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Director: Elaine May
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley, William Prince, Doris Roberts and Art Metrano
Soon after Lenny marries Lila, the needy and unrefined side of her personality begins to emerge and he becomes increasingly uncertain about his decision to marry her.
During their honeymoon in Miami, Lenny meets beautiful and sophisticated Kelly. Every chance he gets, Lenny sneaks away from Lila to be with Kelly and the more he gets to know her, the more he falls in love. Problems arise when the two women learn about each another.
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54
7.2
6.7
Director: Melvin Frank
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, F Murray Abraham, Maxine Stuart, Ed Peck, Gene Blakely and Sylvester Stallone
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife Edna to become the couple's sole breadwinner. Feeling emasculated, he begins to fall into a depression. A summer heat wave, unthoughtful neighbors and a robbery only worsen matters. When Mel finally suffers a nervous breakdown, he relies on those closest to him, including Edna and his brother Harry to restore his sanity.
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43
6.7
6.5
Director: Robert Moore
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Peter Falk, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Sid Caesar
Lou Peckinpaugh is a San Francisco detective in the boozy, wise-cracking tradition of Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon." A suspect in the murder of his own partner, Lou hopes to solve the crime and exonerate himself before the cops haul him in. Meanwhile, he takes a case involving stolen diamonds and gets reacquainted with his old flame, Marlene DuChard, who's on the run from the Gestapo.
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70
6.3
6.4
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Screenplay: Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini
Starring: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Martin Balsam and Akim Tamiroff
In order to receive a fortune in stolen gold bullion, master criminal Aldo "The Fox" Vanucci needs a coastal location. So he poses as a famous movie director, using his drop-off point, a sleepy Italian town, as the "setting" for a new production. But the shrewd plan threatens to come undone thanks to Vanucci's movie-mad sister, Gina Romantica, and the fictional production's star: egocentric, nearly forgotten matinee idol Tony Powell.
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3
6.5
4.9
Director: Jay Sandrich
Screenplay: Neil Simon
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Patricia Clarkson, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Madeline Kahn, Kristen Johnston, Richard Mulligan, Julie Hagerty, Jane Carr, Paxton Whitehead and Margot Steinberg
On one day at an English hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her Television Series and her ex-husband Sidney shows up to ask her for money for his gay lover. Mark and Annie come to London for the Wimbledon Tennis matches, but they lose their tickets and Mark's back goes out. Debra is on her honeymoon with Paul, but Paul is missing and Debra lies to everyone she meets as to where Paul is. Sharon and Lauren are on a shop till you drop trip and Sharon meets Dennis, an older man who seems to be interested in her.
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A list of my favorite films written by Neil Simon and/or based on his plays.
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