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Synopsis: New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have just gotten married. He is a stuffed shirt just starting his career as a lawyer. She is an independently minded free spirit who prides herself on doing the illogical purely out of a sense of adventure, such acts as walking through Washington Square Park barefoot when it's 17°F outside. Their six day honeymoon at the Plaza Hotel shows that they can get to know each other easily in the biblical sense. But they will see if they can get to know each other in their real life when they move into their first apartment, a cozy (in other words, small), slightly broken down top floor unit in a five story walk-up. While Corie joyfully bounds up and down the stairs, Paul, always winded after the fact, hates the fact of having to walk up the six flights of stairs, if one includes the stairs that comprise the outside front stoop. Beyond the issues with the apartment itself, Paul and Corie will have to deal with an odd assortment of neighbors,
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Gene Saks
Production: Paramount Home Video
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
G
Year:
1967
106 min
4,973 Views


Tell me...

That's very funny,

Frank.

For a lawyer

I'm some good kisser.

I'd love to listen,

but I've got work to do.

You, too.

You've a got

a court case tomorrow.

Frank, are you kidding?

Do you mean this?

The whole thing?

Birnbaum v. Gump.

Marshall just

dumped the case

in our eager, inexperienced

little hands.

This is our chance for the key

to the executive washroom.

Well, we're a cinch.

I'll go over the briefs

here tonight.

I'll meet you at the office at 8:00

in the morning.

Frank, think I have time

to grow a mustache?

Did you hear?

Did you hear?

It's my first case!

I'm going to be

a lawyer!

That's great, Paul.

You going to have

to work tonight?

I'm going to go

over the affidavits.

This furrier's suing

a woman for nonpayment.

I've got the furrier.

I have a black

lace nightgown.

He made four coats

for a Park Avenue woman.

She doesn't want them.

She's 4 foot 8. He'd have to sell them

to a rich midget.

I'll put on a record

and do an original

Cambodian fertility dance.

There's no

signed contract.

What's happening?

What is this?

What are you doing?

I'm trying to get you

all hot and bothered,

and you're summing up

for the jury.

The whole marriage

is over.

Corie,

honey, I'm sorry.

I'm excited,

that's all.

You want me to be

rich and famous, don't you?

During the day.

At night I want you

here and sexy.

I will, I prom...

Tomorrow night...

your night.

We'll do whatever

you like, O.K.?

Something wild,

crazy, and insane?

Fine.

Like what?

I'll come home early.

We'll wallpaper

each other.

Tonight, dear,

I've got to work.

Please, O.K.? O.K.?

O.K.

So where

do I sit?

The furniture will be here

in a minute.

It probably got stuck

in traffic.

What about tonight?

I've got court

in the morning.

Maybe we ought

to check into a hotel.

We just checked out

of a hotel.

I want to sleep

in my own apartment.

Where, dear, where?

There's only room

for one in the bathtub.

Where's the bathtub?

There's no bathtub.

There's a shower.

How am I going

to take a bath?

You'll take a shower.

I don't like showers.

I like baths.

How will I

take a bath?

Lie down and hang your feet

over the sink.

Ha ha ha!

You know

it's freezing in here.

Isn't there any heat?

Of course.

There's a radiator.

The radiator's the coolest thing

in the room.

Does the building

have a janitor?

Only Monday, Wednesday,

and Friday.

Paul, it's going to warm up

a lot when the furniture gets here.

What about tonight?

I've got court in the morning.

Stop saying it like you have a case

every morning.

This is your first one.

Well, how...

What are you doing?

Seeing if these windows

are closed.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. more…

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