Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jack LemmonFelix Ungar
- Walter MatthauOscar Madison
- John FiedlerVinnie
- Herb EdelmanMurray
- David SheinerRoy
- Monica EvansCecily
- Carole ShelleyGwendolyn
- Iris AdrianWaitress
- Billie BirdChambermaid (uncredited)
- Angelique PettyjohnGo-go Dancer (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 100
Empire
Lemmon and Mathau's finest hour. - 100
The Telegraph
What makes the film so charming is the comic interplay between Matthau and Lemmon. - 90
Variety
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. - 90
The Dissolve
Revisiting Saks’ screen version nearly 50 years later is like a class in how comedy and storytelling evolve, and how some aspects of a story endure over time, while others get sloughed away. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
A funny screen version of a very funny (if not very significant) Broadway comedy. It does well as an evening's entertainment. - 80
Time
Playwright Neil Simon occasionally takes off his clowns' masks to show the humans beneath. In doing so, he has made his Odd Couple real people, with enough substance to cast shadows alongside the jokes. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Felix and Oscar are now part of the American mythos. - 75
Chicago Reader
For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style.
