7.4
The Goodbye Girl
1977, 1h 51min -
Richard Dreyfuss delivers an Academy Award–winning performance in this Neil Simon–penned classic in which romance blooms between two complete opposites forced to share a New York City apartment. Elliot Garfield (Dreyfuss) has just arrived in Manhattan to take the acting role of his life: Richard III in an off-off-Broadway production. Former chorus girl Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) has just been dumped, again. This time her ex has abandoned her, sublet their apartment—to Garfield—and left Paula and her nine-year-old daughter without a job or a place to live. Reluctant to throw a mother and daughter out, Garfield lets the pair stay and—in spite of his eccentric habits—the three form an unconventional home.
