Film · 1968 · Comedy
The Odd Couple
Directed by Gene Saks
1968
★ 4.2 editorial score
Neil Simon's play handed American comedy a permanent shape: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau share an apartment badly, and the television series that followed ran for five years.
“It's a film that is near-stubborn in the lack of heed it pays to the groovy outside world. Yet it single-handedly painted men in a new, vulnerable light, proving that they were capable, at their worst, of bickering and worrying far more than their female counterparts ever could. What's strange about The Odd Couple is that, despite the flaws it highlights in male existence, it's ultimately reassuring to its male viewer about his gender.”
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