Neil Simon
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
An insightful drama about one woman's drive and its emotional toll on her and her family. Grandma Kurnitz has endured many crises, ranging from a harsh childhood in Germany to being a young widow with six children in a foreign country. From her life she learned to be strong, hard, and cold, and this is the lesson she tries to instill in her four remaining children. While her two teenage grandsons are in her care, the three learn the importance of...
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other---with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen year old Eugene Jerome is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees.
10) The odd couple
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Two divorced men move in together but can't stand each other's habits.
13) California Suite
Description
Five couples have come to the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles for diverse reasons, and they must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas.
14) Murder by death
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
An eccentric millionaire invites five world famous detectives to dinner and reveals to them that at midnight, someone in the dining room will be stabbed to death. Lampoons both the mystery genre and the characterizations of these instantly recognizable gumshoes.
16) The marrying man
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
On the eve of millionaire playboy Charley Pearl's wedding to the perfect woman, he meets a sultry Las Vegas lounge singer, and it's lust at first sight.
17) The goodbye girl
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The story of a divorcee, Paula McFadden, who begins a new life with her daughter, Lucy. Paula's life is thrown for an even bigger loop when an egotistical actor, Elliot Garfield, sublets her Manhattan apartment from her wayward boyfriend. Despite their initial hostility, this unlikely pair discovers romance as they help each other cope with the hardships of life in the big city.
18) After the fox
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
A convicted con artist becomes a new wave Italian director as a front. Peter Sellers as the Fox dons no less than eight disguises en route to becoming director Federico Fabrizi.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A confirmed bachelor falls for and marries a beautiful woman he's just met. On their honeymoon, he realizes he's made a huge mistake, and now wants to turn his nightmare into a dream come true, when he meets his real soulmate on the trip.
Eddie is a confirmed bachelor who is forty and owns a sporting-goods store. After watching his ex-fiancé walk down the aisle, he meets Lila who is an environmental researcher. Lila seems too good to be true. Pressured...
20) The goodbye girl
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The story of a divorcee, Paula McFadden, who begins a new life with her daughter, Lucy. Paula's life is thrown for an even bigger loop when an egotistical actor, Elliot Garfield, sublets her Manhattan apartment from her wayward boyfriend. Despite their initial hostility, this unlikely pair discovers romance as they help each other cope with the hardships of life in the big city.