Product Description

Richard Dreyfuss as a struggling actor and Marsha Mason as an even more struggling actress/dancer/mother deliver comedy repartee and bitter-to-best romance in Neil Simon's lustrous charmer featuring Dreyfuss' Academy Award-winning Best Actor performance.Running Time: 112 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 012569504820

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3959 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2000-01-18
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 110 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

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.

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.

While possession may be nine-tenths of the law, Paula knows that the law is really on Elliot's side since he has the signed lease. So they negotiate an arrangement that they'll be roommates.

This is not a likely pairing. Paula really hates actors now since she's been dumped on them more than once. But, as time goes on, the three bond.

Some really hilarious scenes here where Elliot gets stuck playing Richard III as a flaming queen instead of a King. But the best lines are from young Quinn Cummings, who steals the show from the two veteran actors.

Well done movie and one of Neil Simon's absolute best.

Rebecca Kyle, April 2008

Romance and Story

This is an oldies but goody. Mason and Dreyfus were magic here. David Gates' title song didn't hurt either.