Tag: Neil Simon

Laughter on the 23rd Floor Script

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Year:2001
Director:Richard Benjamin
Written by:Neil Simon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room
Laughter on the 23rd Floor Script Resources:

  • Laughter on the 23rd Floor Script PDF - NO DATE at Script City ($)

Other Links:
  • Laughter on the 23rd Floor ( tt0248955 ) at IMDb
  • Laughter on the 23rd Floor ( 79017 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Goodbye Girl Script

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Year:1977
Director:Herbert Ross
Written by:Neil Simon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Paula knows that, in romance, actors all follow the same stage instruction—Exit. Without warning, her actor boyfriend splits for a movie role, and sublet their Manhattan apartment to Elliot, an actor.
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Star Spangled Girl Script

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Year:1971
Director:Jerry Paris
Written by:Neil Simon (Theatre Play), Arnold Margolin (Writer), Jim Parker (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
Star Spangled Girl Script Resources:

  • Star Spangled Girl Script PDF - 3/8/71 FINAL SHOOTING at Script City ($)

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Come Blow Your Horn Script

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Year:1963
Director:Bud Yorkin
Written by:Neil Simon (Theatre Play), Norman Lear (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Come Blow Your Horn Script Resources:

  • Come Blow Your Horn Script PDF - FINAL DRAFT at Script City ($)

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Broadway Bound Script

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Year:1992
Director:Paul Bogart
Written by:Neil Simon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" is the Final Chapter of his acclaimed trilogy that began with "Biloxi Blues" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs".
Broadway Bound Script Resources:

  • Broadway Bound Script PDF - 3/90 FIRST at Script City ($)

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The Prisoner of Second Avenue Script

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Year:1975
Director:Melvin Frank
Written by:Neil Simon (Writer), Neil Simon (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( tt0072034 ) at IMDb
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 19221 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Barefoot In The Park Script

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Year:1967
Director:Gene Saks
Written by:Neil Simon (Screenplay), Neil Simon (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
Barefoot In The Park Script Resources:

  • Barefoot In The Park Script PDF - 10/13/66 FINAL at Script City ($)
  • Barefoot In The Park Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Barefoot In The Park Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.


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  • Barefoot In The Park ( tt0061385 ) at IMDb
  • Barefoot In The Park ( 17887 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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The Odd Couple Script

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Year:1968
Director:Gene Saks
Written by:Neil Simon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
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Plaza Suite Script

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Year:1971
Director:Arthur Hiller
Written by:Neil Simon (Theatre Play), Neil Simon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
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Murder By Death Script

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Year:1976
Director:Robert Moore
Written by:Neil Simon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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