The Goodbye Girl

1977

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 85% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 17448 17.4K

ballet dancer theater play family abandonment single mother precocious child manhattan, new york city

Plot summary

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Director

Herbert Ross Photo
Herbert Ross

Top cast

Anita Dangler Photo
Anita Dangler as Mrs. Morganweiss
Raymond J. Barry Photo
Raymond J. Barry as Richard III Cast
Clarence Felder Photo
Clarence Felder as Critic
Richard Dreyfuss Photo
Richard Dreyfuss as Elliot Garfield
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
920.39 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 3
1.75 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cynthiacher-1 6 / 10

It's OK, but not great

Reviewed by moonspinner55 7 / 10

Alternately brittle and soft

An original screenplay by Neil Simon, originally titled "Bogart Slept Here" (and set to co-star Marsha Mason with Robert De Niro), pits dumped-on single mother and former dancer in New York City with a high-strung off-Broadway actor in the same apartment. Hit comedy has a woodpecker's rhythm: some of the lines are funny but the smart talk is very theatrical, all in service of a contrived set-up. Luckily, the cast is winning: Mason is marvelous when she gets her ire up, punctuated with held-back tears, while Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss is a charming rascal (his play within the movie, "Richard III"--with its emphasis on Richard's homosexuality--is very amusing). The first half is generally too brittle while the third act is too soft, yet the players make the movie memorably cute and warm. Director Herbert Ross does some lovely, romantic things with rain here, particularly in his wet finale which is reminiscent in its staging and editing of the final scene in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". *** from ****
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