Director: Gene Saks
The film adaptation of Neil Simon’s play by the same name, The Odd Couple is a window into the lives of two divorced friends who move in together. During the their time under one roof Oscar (Walter Mathau) and Felix (Jack Lemmon) realize that while they love each other like brothers they hate each other like spouses. Full of great acting and funny bits the adventures of Oscar and Felix is certainly worth seeing.
Obsessive compulsive law:
1. Felix was once locked in a bathroom and wrote out his will on a roll of toilet paper. Probably not enforceable.
2. Oscar is behind on child support and his ex-wife threatens him with jail.
3. A cop plays in the weekly poker game. He says that he “can’t arrest the whole game.”
4. Felix’s wife is going to use his cousin as her lawyer in the divorce proceedings.
5. The Pigeon sister’s claim that divorce is tough with out the proper solicitors. One of them had her husband die “before the final papers went through,” so she isn’t technically divorced.
6. When it is suspected that Felix might be attempting suicide again they look for him in a police car. The Cop who is off duty and shouldn’t be driving around with all his buddies in the car tells some other officers that it is an “off duty arrest … caught them gambling.”
