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Goodbye Girl [VHS] | ![Goodbye Girl [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S54PE3VNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Rating:  70 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6304286422
UPC: 027616609731
EAN: 9786304286425
Release Date: January 7, 1997
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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 divorc e 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
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 I watched this in 1977 and thought it was a terrific movie, now... July 2, 2010
K. Van Zandt (Bogot Colombia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
after having been a foster mother to a young girl who was raped (twice) by her mother's live-in boyfriend, I wonder why we exalt a movie so completely devoid of values. What was this mother thinking as she selected ruinous relationships that will affect her daughter's life forever?
 Pleasently Pleased June 5, 2010
Ms. Susan L. King (Las Vegas)
While I was deciding to order my first DVD on Amazon I saw the item "The Goodbye Girl". I remembered seeing it from years ago and just remembered that I "liked it". So I ordered it as well. Much to my surprise it was just as good as if it was purchased anywhere. The quality was outstanding. Clearity-unbelievable (especially for a movie done so long ago). The movie brought back all the reasons why I "liked it". I can honestly say I have watched this movie now 4 times since I purchased it. Made me cry when I was younger and did it again! Thanks for rekindling old memories!
Goodbyegirl April 17, 2010
Teri Cherock (lIVERPOOL , N.Y.)
THIS WAS A VERY GOOD MOVIE TO SEE. IT IS A OLD MOVIE.
watch this with yer sweetheart March 24, 2010
little moosey (colorado, usa)
well done, great dialouge and acting. a movie to watch with yer sweetheart ...romantical, happy ending, funny.
 Wow, this movie was lame February 28, 2010
Paula (California, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I watched it just to see what all the fuss was about. It was on Turner Classic Movies channel, so thankfully I didn't waste any money buying a DVD. This movie was lame. Neil Simon's style of writing gets on my nerves very quickly. There is a lot of fast-paced dialogue and often bickering going on in his stories. These characters were not likeable. In fact, they were both pretty rude people. This business of Richard Dreyfuss coming home one day after he had gotten the black eye, suddenly being madly in love with Marsha Mason was totally unbelievable crap. Anyway, I was mildly entertained because it was so lame, that I gave it two stars instead of one. The kid was also pretty annoying. These stories that make these kids act very adult like and witty are very annoying.
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