Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- new york city
- roommates
- male friendship
- based on play or musical
- obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd)
- poker game
- divorced man
- 1960s
- eccentric man
- neat freak
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- David Sheiner — Roy
- Monica Evans — Cecily
- Carole Shelley — Gwendolyn
- Iris Adrian — Waitress
- Billie Bird — Chambermaid (uncredited)
- Angelique Pettyjohn — Go-go Dancer (uncredited)
- Heywood Hale Broun — Sports Journalist (uncredited)
- Larry Haines — 'Speed'
- Directed
- Gene Saks
- Written
- Neil Simon
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 656 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1968 · You’re hereThe Odd Couple
Where it starts.
The Odd Couple II
1998
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
