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  • Goodbye

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    The Goodbye Girl  (1977)

    Caught this one on TCM the other night (well, most of it, but I'd seen it before many years ago). It was much better than I remembered it, a lot of good Neil Simon dialog, and Richard Dreyfuss' Richard III is absolutely hilarious. The kid, as played by Quinn Cummings is really cute and appealling. Marsha Mason, though - boy did Neil Simon have a knack for writing annoying female characters (see also Barefoot in the Park, which I also recently saw), she spends the entire movie whining and complaining and its a wonder why Richard Dreyfuss falls for this neurotic mess. The ending is particularly disappointing, and I felt myself hoping the Richard Dreyfuss character would just leave for the west coast and never come back.

  • Barefootin'

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    Biloxi Blues  (1988)

    The Goodbye Girl  (1977)

    The Odd Couple  (1968)

    Saw this one a couple weeks ago while we were waiting around for our teenage son to come home from a date. Had seen bits and pieces of it before, but never stuck with it for some reason. I was struck this time by what a good performance Robert Redford gives here, he really should have done a lot more comedy, he really had a knack for dry deadpan delivery, and of course, it doesn't hurt that his character gets all the funny lines. Jane Fonda is adequate, if a bit whiney, but she compensates by flashing a lot of leg throughout. Charles Boyer is appeallingly debonair in a caricature of his usual screen persona and Mildred Natwick is ok as the flustered Mother-in-law (although, what the Charles Boyer character sees in her is beyond me, she's constantly complaining about the least little obstacle).

    Fun Neil Simon adaptation - be sure to check out these others: The Odd Couple, The Goodbye Girl, Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs 


 

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