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

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