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The Goodbye Girl
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014780500693
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Number Of Discs: 1
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1978
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Editorial Review:
The Goodbye Girl is a bittersweet comedy about relationships and taking chances. Though it deals with the human condition, what most quickly comes to mind are those wickedly comedic scenes featuring Richard Dreyfuss in an Oscar-winning role. He plays a struggling actor with a sharp tongue who has sublet an apartment from single mom Marcia Mason, a divorcée with horrific taste in men, who are always running out on her. She is left high and dry once more, stuck sharing her apartment with Dreyfuss when he hasn't the heart to enforce his lease and toss out mother and daughter.
Neil Simon's play shines under the direction of Herbert Ross as these two mismatched people find their contempt changing into mutual admiration. Quinn Cummings is more interesting than most precocious child stars; she seems brighter and her manner is prickly instead of cloying. Watch this film just for the scene in which Dreyfuss plays Richard III in an off-off-Broadway play. He lisps, he limps, he screams. It is the worst theater you will ever see--and thoroughly hilarious. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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Rating:  - WINNING ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH DREYFUSS IN TOP FORM!
I had never seen this film until now and I must say it is a very good movie! Considering there are only three people in the majority of the film, it's amazingly engrossing. Dreyfuss has never been more likable and so full of energy! It's smart, funny and not too sweet. The DVD transfer looks very good, but not much in the way of extras.
Rating:  - Good
3.5 stars. I wanted to really love this film instead of just kinda liking it. I generally like the premise and I think Richard is just adorable, but there are times when the movie feels long and I generally don't like it when heroines are portrayed as being wishy washy or highly irrational. Even with that said this is still an entertaining film if you want to brush up on your classics.
Rating: - The Goodbye Girl
This is one of my all time favorite chick flics. It's one of those movies you can watch over and over and not grow tired of it.
Rating: - Still one of the best movies I've seen
Paula (Mason) and her 10 year old daughter Lucy (Cummings) have just returned from a shopping spree. They're bubbly and excited because they're going to live in California. Then, Paula discovers a note. It seems her actor-boyfriend, Tony, has dumped her and is going to Italy instead.
The bad news just keeps rolling in. At midnight, Paula gets a call from a strange man. It seems Elliot Garfield (Dreyfus) is an actor who's sublet the apartment from Tony and he wants to move in.
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Rating: - Romance and Story
This is an oldies but goody. Mason and Dreyfus were magic here. David Gates' title song didn't hurt either.
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