Screenplay: Neil Simon
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Neil Simon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Odd Couple
1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Gene Saks
Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · John Fiedler · Herb Edelman
Plot Two friends try sharing an apartment, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day. Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondant,...
7.7
25K votes
7.7
25K votes
Barefoot in the Park
1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Gene Saks
Cast Robert Redford · Jane Fonda · Charles Boyer · Mildred Natwick
Plot Master of Broadway comedy Neil Simon adapted his hit play about a conservative young lawyer and his off-the-wall bride for this warm film classic. Robert Redford is Mister Straight. Jane...
7.2
16K votes
7.2
16K votes
Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Moore
Cast Alec Guinness · David Niven · Peter Sellers · Peter Falk
Plot Millionnaire Lionel Twain invites the five most brilliant private eyes to a dinner - and a murder. So, Sidney Wang from China, Dick Charleston from New York, Jessica Marbles from...
7.2
14K votes
7.2
14K votes
The Goodbye Girl
1977 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Marsha Mason · Quinn Cummings · Paul Benedict
Plot A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. The second...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Sweet Charity
1969 · Movie · 149 min. · United States
Direction Bob Fosse
Cast Shirley MacLaine · Ricardo Montalban · Sammy Davis Jr. · Paula Kelly
Plot Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to...
6.7
695 votes
6.7
695 votes
The Sunshine Boys
1975 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Walter Matthau · George Burns · Richard Benjamin · Carol Arthur
Plot Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a popular vaudeville comedy team called Lewis and Clark, also known as The Sunshine Boys. After forty-three years as a team, they parted...
6.6
630 votes
6.6
630 votes
The Out of Towners (The Out-of-Towners)
1970 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Jack Lemmon · Sandy Dennis · Anne Meara · Ann Prentiss
Plot Written for the screen by Neil Simon, The Out-Of-Towners is witty, uproarious movie that keeps moving at Simon´s unusal frenetic pace. Incredible mishaps occur when a middle-aged Ohio couple fly...
6.5
969 votes
6.5
969 votes
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Gene Saks
Cast Blythe Danner · Bob Dishy · Stacey Glick · Judith Ivey
Plot Eugene (Jonathan Silverman) is a teenager who lives in 1937 Brooklyn with his parents (Blythe Danner and Bob Dishy), older brother Stanley (Brian Drillinger), aunt (Judith Ivey) and female cousins...
6.5
66 votes
6.5
66 votes
The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue
1975 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank
Cast Jack Lemmon · Anne Bancroft · Gene Saks · Elizabeth Wilson
6.4
607 votes
6.4
607 votes
The Heartbreak Kid
1972 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Elaine May
Cast Charles Grodin · Cybill Shepherd · Jeannie Berlin · Audra Lindley
Plot Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides...
6.3
211 votes
6.3
211 votes
California Suite
1978 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Alan Alda · Jane Fonda · Maggie Smith · Michael Caine
Plot This stunning ensemble cast tells the story of four different guests in a hotel. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda are a divorced couple fighting over the visitation of their daughter....
6.0
1K votes
6.0
1K votes
Only When I Laugh
1981 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Marsha Mason · Kristy McNichol · James Coco · Joan Hackett
Plot A boozy Broadway actress (Marsha Mason) comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends (James Coco, Joan Hackett) as well as her needy daughter...
5.9
69 votes
5.9
69 votes
Lost in Yonkers
1993 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Martha Coolidge
Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Mercedes Ruehl · Irene Worth · David Strathairn
Plot LOST IN YONKERS is the story of an eccentric New York family in crisis in the summer of 1942. On the run from a loan shark, a frightened and weak-willed...
5.9
194 votes
5.9
194 votes
The Sunshine Boys (TV)
1996 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast Woody Allen · Peter Falk · Sarah Jessica Parker · Michael McKean
Plot Woody Allen and Peter Falk star as the former comedy partners who, after years of animosity, agree to reunite for a big-budget movie, only to have their long-simmering feud boil...
5.8
275 votes
5.8
275 votes
After the Fox
1966 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Vittorio De Sica
Cast Peter Sellers · Victor Mature · Britt Ekland · Martin Balsam
Plot Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held...
5.7
345 votes
5.7
345 votes
The Lonely Guy
1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Steve Martin · Charles Grodin · Judith Ivey · Robyn Douglass
Plot A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
5.6
257 votes
5.6
257 votes
Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II
1998 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Howard Deutch
Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Christine Baranski · Barnard Hughes
Plot It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. One day, Oscar is...
5.6
2K votes
5.6
2K votes
Max Dugan Returns
1982 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Marsha Mason · Jason Robards · Matthew Broderick · Donald Sutherland
Plot Max Dugan (Jason Robards Jr.) is an elderly ne'er-do-well whose tenuous mob connections have made him persona non grata with his daughter Marsha Mason. Struggling to raise her restless son...
5.6
112 votes
5.6
112 votes
Chapter Two
1979 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Robert Moore
Cast James Caan · Marsha Mason · Joseph Bologna · Valerie Harper
Plot The last thing widower George Schneider expects is to fall in love again so soon after losing his spouse. Recent divorcee Jennie MacLaine also would like to take some time...
5.6
37 votes
5.6
37 votes
Plaza Suite
1971 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast Walter Matthau · Maureen Stapleton · Barbara Harris · Lee Grant
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...
5.5
78 votes
5.5
78 votes