Neil Simon — Playwright (14)
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Brighton Beach Memoirs
director: Gene Saks actor: Jonathan Silverman / Blythe Danner
other title: Ricordi di Brighton Beach / Les Mémoires de Brighton Beach
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I Ought to Be in Pictures
director: Herbert Ross actor: Walter Matthau / Ann-Margret
other title: Quel giardino di aranci fatti in casa / Eigentlich wollte ich zum Film
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.
Plaza Suite (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Plaza Suite
other title: Appartamento al Plaza / Hotelgeflüster
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.
The Marrying Man (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Marrying Man
director: Jerry Rees actor: Kim Basinger / Alec Baldwin
other title: Bella, bionda... e dice sempre sì / Esta Loira Mata-me
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.
The Sunshine Boys (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Sunshine Boys
director: Herbert Ross actor: Walter Matthau / George Burns
other title: I ragazzi irresistibili / Sunshine Boys
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.
Seems Like Old Times (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Seems Like Old Times
director: Jay Sandrich actor: Goldie Hawn / Chevy Chase
other title: Bastano tre per fare una coppia / Fast wie in alten Zeiten
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.
Murder by Death (1976) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Murder by Death
director: 罗伯特·穆尔 actor: Eileen Brennan / 杜鲁门·卡波特
other title: 怪宴 / 怪案
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.