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Neil Simon has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Odd Couple.
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Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · Writer
Top 15%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Barefoot in the Park
1967 · Movie · Writer
Top 16%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Goodbye Girl
1977 · Movie · Writer
Top 28%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Out-of-Towners
1970 · Movie · Writer
Top 33%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Seems Like Old Times
1980 · Movie · Writer
Top 54%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

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.
Dir. Gene Saks · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers

In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
Dir. Gene Saks · With Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin

A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron

Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.
Dir. Elaine May · With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan

After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name. However, hilarity ensues when he must hide from her husband, who’s throwing a party for law enforcement officials.
Dir. Jay Sandrich · With Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin

A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern

Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and rent a car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Riehle
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith
Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson that soon leads to her bedroom. When the couple are discovered by Vicki's beau, infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel, he makes a surprising pronouncement -- they'd better marry, or Charley is a dead man.
Dir. Jerry Rees · With Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia
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