Neil Simon (1927-2018) was a 4-time Oscar®-nominated American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar® and Tony® nominations than any other writer. His IMDb page shows 101 writing credits from 1948 to 1997. This page ranks 30 of his movies. His many televison credits were not included in the rankings. Sadly this page was done after learning of his passing. Rest in peace Neil Simon.
Neil Simon Movies Ranked By Combination of Box Office, Reviews and Awards (UMR Score) *Classic UMR Table (the one with all the stats is the second table)
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | The Goodbye Girl (1977) AA Best Picture Nom |
Richard Dreyfuss & Marsha Mason |
91.00 | 510.1 | 510.10 | 4 | 80 | 05 / 01 | 98.9 | |
| 2 | The Odd Couple (1968) | Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau |
44.50 | 424.9 | 424.90 | 6 | 81 | 02 / 00 | 97.6 | |
| 4 | Barefoot in the Park (1967) | Robert Redford & Jane Fonda |
22.50 | 232.4 | 232.40 | 12 | 77 | 01 / 00 | 96.6 | |
| 3 | Murder by Death (1976) | Peter Sellers & Peter Falk |
57.90 | 339.7 | 339.70 | 9 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.1 | |
| 5 | Come Blow Your Horn (1963) | Frank Sinatra | 17.10 | 249.2 | 249.20 | 10 | 72 | 01 / 00 | 95.5 | |
| 6 | Seems Like Old Times (1980) | Chevy Chase & Goldie Hawn |
44.00 | 211.5 | 211.50 | 19 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 93.6 | |
| 7 | The Cheap Detective (1978) | Ann-Margret & Peter Falk |
43.30 | 231.5 | 231.50 | 12 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 91.7 | |
| 8 | The Sunshine Boys (1975) | Walter Matthau & George Burns |
21.80 | 133.0 | 133.00 | 31 | 76 | 04 / 01 | 91.0 | |
| 9 | California Suite (1978) | Michael Caine & Richard Pryor |
42.90 | 229.2 | 229.20 | 13 | 55 | 03 / 01 | 90.8 | |
| 10 | The Out of Towners (1970) | Jack Lemmon | 21.90 | 176.7 | 176.70 | 16 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 89.2 | |
| 13 | Chapter Two (1979) | James Caan & Marsha Mason |
40.10 | 199.9 | 199.90 | 21 | 49 | 01 / 00 | 87.4 | |
| 11 | Biloxi Blues (1988) | Matthew Broderick & Christopher Walken |
43.20 | 131.3 | 157.20 | 23 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 86.6 | |
| 12 | The Heartbreak Kid (1972) | Charles Grodin & Eddie Albert |
16.80 | 123.2 | 123.20 | 25 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 85.4 | |
| 14 | Only When I Laugh (1981) | Marsha Mason & Kevin Bacon |
25.50 | 114.8 | 114.80 | 34 | 65 | 03 / 00 | 83.7 | |
| 15 | Plaza Suite (1971) | Walter Matthau & Barbara Harris |
12.10 | 91.8 | 91.80 | 29 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 76.9 | |
| 16 | Max Dugan Returns (1983) | Donald Sutherland & Matthew Broderick |
17.60 | 69.9 | 69.90 | 40 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 75.8 | |
| 17 | After The Fox (1966) | Peter Sellers & Victor Mature |
5.70 | 65.3 | 65.30 | 50 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 73.2 | |
| 19 | Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) | Blythe Danner | 12.00 | 40.3 | 40.30 | 65 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 67.4 | |
| 18 | Sweet Charity (1969) | Shirley MacLaine & Ricardo Montalban |
3.10 | 27.7 | 27.70 | 69 | 69 | 03 / 00 | 66.4 | |
| 20 | The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) | Jack Lemmon & Anne Bancroft |
7.30 | 44.3 | 44.30 | 54 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 65.3 | |
| 21 | Lost in Yonkers (1993) | Richard Dreyfuss | 9.30 | 28.0 | 28.00 | 114 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 62.7 | |
| 22 | The Heartbreak Kid (2007) | Ben Stiller & Michelle Monaghan |
36.80 | 66.8 | 232.10 | 73 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 54.7 | |
| 22 | I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982) | Walter Matthau & Ann-Margret |
7.00 | 29.6 | 29.60 | 74 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 50.4 | |
| 24 | The Odd Couple II (1998) | Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau |
18.90 | 50.4 | 50.40 | 86 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 47.7 | |
| 25 | Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) | Alan Arkin | 2.60 | 18.9 | 18.90 | 106 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 39.8 | |
| 26 | Star Spangled Girl (1971) | Sandy Duncan | 3.90 | 29.8 | 29.80 | 72 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 33.6 | |
| 27 | The Lonely Guy (1984) | Steve Martin & Charles Grodin |
5.70 | 21.3 | 21.30 | 104 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 31.5 | |
| 28 | The Out-of-Towners (1999) | Steve Martin & Goldie Hawn |
28.50 | 70.5 | 70.50 | 71 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 30.2 | |
| 29 | The Marrying Man (1991) | Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger |
12.50 | 37.0 | 37.00 | 86 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 25.7 | |
| 30 | The Slugger's Wife (1985) | Baseball Movies & Michael O'Keefe |
1.90 | 6.6 | 6.60 | 145 | 26 | 00 / 00 | 0.6 |
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Carole Shelley who was one of the Pigeon Sisters in The Odd Couple on stage, film, and TV has died at the age of 79.
Thanks for this information Flora.
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Neil Simon Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
•Sort Neil Simon movies by co-stars of his movies.
•Sort Neil Simon movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
•Sort Neil Simon movies by yearly domestic box office rank
•Sort Neil Simon movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
•Sort by how many Oscar® nominations eachNeil Simon movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Neil Simon movie won.
•Sort Neil Simon movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
•Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive.
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Hey Dan…..I have checked on many different devices…and I am not seeing that error. WoC says it might be a hosting issue but would be impossible to track down…..hopefully it will not be there if you attempt it again.
HI FLORA
Sadly my own tribute to Neil is just another one of my posts that the guy whom I regard as my teacher on this site never gotten around to because he’s away teaching others.
However I don’t feel too bad about it because I see from Steve’s frantic campaign on your behalf that “Teach” has been giving you too the brush off so I feel that I’m in the best company that I could be in on this site.
Like calling our lord and master Teach occasionally because as I’m sure that you know that was our Glenn’s nickname in Blackboard Jungle, the movie that made him a star.
Thanks Bob.
I agree. I’m in good company. I remember Teach” in The Blackboard Jungle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76-nTHhfl0A Go to the 50 second mark and you too can catch the catchy Mr. Rogers Windows song…lol. Joel would approve.
Hey Flora…not surprised you remember a Glenn Ford movie so well….lol.
Your comment has been responded to Bob…..trying my best….to get new material out…and comment back…..I think with my comments quickly reaching 15,000 I respond to most of the comments.
I like the nickname Teach. Actually it makes me want to share what happens in the class. My last name is Rogers….so growing up…I heard a ton of jokes about….”It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and Won’t You Be My Neighbor”. Now that I am older and wiser……my kids like to sing a song to me. In this area….there is a local company called…Mr. Rogers Windows…..they have a catchy tune…..That goes “Mr. Rogers Windows”…..that is the song they sing to me. So of those nicknames give me Teach any day…..lol.
HI BRUCE
Know what you mean.
My name is as you know Bob Roy. so obviously I got Rob Roy McGregor, the name of the famous Highland Rogue played by Liam Neeson. Everyone who said it thought they had been the first to discover the joke.
I’ve mentioned how most people who met Dalton of Road House for the first time said “I thought you’d be bigger,” and he would ultimately retort “Gee where have I heard that before?” Well I said that before Dalton!
My wife’s name is Jessie so I’m sure that you being in the land where the Wild West was and also being a movie buff can guess what her nickname was! .
By the way if you look at the cast lists and posters for Red Dawn 1984 you will see that Patrick gets first billing. You know my unbending rule that the one who is billed first is the star and I don’t care whether Myrna has twice as long a part!
That’s why I agree with Sandra ‘s agent that Hanks has to carry the can for their flop outing together Extremely Loud/Incredibly Close !!!
Hey Rob Roy….good information on your name and Swayze’s billing on Red Dawn….we will have to continue to disagree on that pesky “only top billed” star rule you have. So you are married to Jessie James….cool! Good feedback.
TCM is airing a Neil Simon tribute on Friday, September 14th. The schedule is:
8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific: The Odd Couple
10pm/7pm: The Goodbye Girl
12am/9pm: Lost In Yonkers
Hey Flora….thanks for sharing this information on the TCM tribute to Neil Simon….I have seen all of these movies…..I think Lost in Yonkers is a good movie that almost nobody even remembers. A re-union between Dreyfuss and Simon.
Nice tribute to Neil Simon. I used to always get him mixed up with Paul Simon.
Thank you SteinHoF16…..I think many people got them mixed. At one point on Sunday….Paul Simon was the top trending person on Yahoo…..I am guessing people heard Neil Simon passed away…and when they went to read about him….they typed in Paul Simon instead. Just my thought. RIP Mr. Neil Simon.