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Neat Freak | New York City
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Best Written American Comedy | 1969 | Neil
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1969 | Neil
Best Film Editing | 1969
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1969
Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1969 | Jack
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special | 1969
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | 1969 | Gene
Best Edited Feature Film | 1969
Male Comedy Performance | 1968 | Jack
Budget 1,200,000 USD
Box Office Collection 44,527,234 USD
The two great friends, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, are paired in a movie for the second of ten times.
Monica Evans and Carole Shelley reprise their roles in Disney's The Aristocats (1970) as a pair of English geese on a walking tour of France.
Walter Matthau, who played Oscar in both the original Broadway play and the movie, asked the play's author, Neil Simon, if he could play Felix instead. This was because Matthau thought Oscar's personality was too similar to his own and the role would be too easy; whereas playing the persnickety Felix would be a real acting challenge. Simon replied, "Walter, go and be an actor in somebody else's play. Please be Oscar in mine." Matthau finally agreed to it.
When getting ready for their dinner with the ladies, Oscar jokingly asks, "You think Mozart goes good with meatloaf?" Walter Matthau was a passionate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enthusiast, and had extensive knowledge of his work.
Neil Simon based the character of Felix on his older brother, Danny Simon.
"Oscar Madison: I can't take it anymore, Felix, I'm cracking up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you're not here, the things I know you're gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can't stand little notes on my pillow. "We're all out of cornflakes. F.U." Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar!"
"Murray: A whole bottle of pills! My God, get an ambulance! Oscar Madison: Wait a minute, will ya? We don't even know what kind! Murray: What difference does it make? He took a whole bottle! Oscar Madison: Well, maybe they were vitamins! He could be the healthiest one in the room!"
