The Odd Couple

1968 • 105 minutes

About this movie

Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays fussy Felix, fastidious to a fault. He proves that cleanliness is next to insanity. Matthau is Oscar, who wreaks havoc on a tidy room with the speed and thoroughness of a tornado. An enduring and endearing picture, with the intelligence on usually misses in comedies.

Ratings and reviews

Walter and jack display what is often considered to be the best double act performance in film. Personally, l agree.

Timeless, wonderful movie great acting outstanding screenplay and one I could watch over and over again. WM is outstanding

Awesome, hadn't watched in ages!