Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the
The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by
Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (
Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (
Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the wedding of Oscar's son Brucey (
Jonathan Silverman) to Felix's daughter Hannah (Lisa Waltz), but a breakdown leaves them stranded at some distance from the main highways where they are sprayed by a cropduster and hang out with two flirtatious women (
Christine Baranski,
Jean Smart) in a small-town bar before getting a lift from slow-driving elderly Beaumont (
Barnard Hughes), eventually arriving at the wedding. Composer
Alan Silvestri brings in Neal Hefti's original theme from the 1968 film, music also featured in ABC's 1970-75 TV series with
Tony Randall and
Jack Klugman. Another
Odd Couple sequel is the TV movie The Odd Couple: Together Again (CBS, 1993, repeated July 1997), starring Randall and Klugman; it also involved the wedding of Felix's daughter. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide