Odd Couple

Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordina ry people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to sh are a New York apartment. That’s the premise of The Odd Couple, though there’s nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Ja ck Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together wit h the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spon taneity. Lemmon plays fussy Felix, fastidious to a fault. He proves th at cleanliness is next to insanity. Matthau is Oscar, who wreaks havoc on a tidy room with the speed and thoroughness of a tornado. An endurin g and endearing picture, with the intelligence on usually misses in come dies.