Tag: Neil Simon

Seems Like Old Times Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jay Sandrich
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0081480

Plot:Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
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Murder By Death Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Writer)
Directed by:Robert Moore
Year:1976
IMDb:tt0074937

Plot:Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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The Odd Couple Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Writer)
Directed by:Gene Saks
Year:1968
IMDb:tt0063374

Plot: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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Barefoot In The Park Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Screenplay), Neil Simon (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Gene Saks
Year:1967
IMDb:tt0061385

Plot:In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
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The Slugger’s Wife Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Writer)
Directed by:Hal Ashby
Year:1985
IMDb:tt0090036

Plot:Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer (Rebecca De Mornay). After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn't. When she gives up her dreams to support her husband, she can't escape her own unhappiness. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.
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I Ought To Be In Pictures Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Screenplay), Neil Simon (Theatre Play)
Directed by:Herbert Ross
Year:1982
IMDb:tt0084109

Plot:Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
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Only When I Laugh Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Writer)
Directed by:Glenn A. Jordan
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082853

Plot:A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
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Chapter Two Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Moore
Year:1979
IMDb:tt0078952

Plot:George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
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Plaza Suite Script

Script by:Neil Simon (Theatre Play), Neil Simon (Screenplay)
Directed by:Arthur Hiller
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067589

Plot:Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts 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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