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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 72553
Released: July 20, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The Goodbye Girl is a contemporary turn on Academy? Award-nominated Neil Simon's classic film about a dumped-on divorcee and an aspiring actor who become unwilling roommates in a New York City apartment.
Description of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004 TV Movie):
More than a quarter-century after Herbert Ross directed Richard Dreyfuss to an Oscar and made an indelible cinematic impression out of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl, a 2004 television remake starring Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton proved winning and funny in its own way. Daniels plays Elliot, an actor who subleases a New York City apartment already occupied by a dancer and single mom, Paula (Heaton), and her daughter (Hallie Kate Eisenberg). Focused on his stagecraft, Elliot is irked about sharing housing with strangers, and while Paula feels the same (to great comic effect), both come to lean on and finally love one another over time. The underrated Daniels is very good here, nuanced and thoughtful, and his work performing (as Elliot) in a stage production of Richard III is quite entertaining. Heaton is equally strong and frequently stirring; anyone with doubts about this film's casting will quickly forget them. --Tom Keogh
Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004 TV Movie) Reviews:
The Goodbye Girl 
2009-07-09 - Awesome condition of the DVD and Outstanding movie to see. Would recommend to women who think all men are couch potatoes.
Pleasant, But Ultimately Pointless 
2009-05-24 - Not-bad updating of 1977 Neil Simon/Herbert Ross Oscar-winner. Patricia Heaton delivers what critics like to call a "winning" performance as a divorced Broadway gypsy with a young daughter, who keeps falling unluckily in love with self-centered actors. Heaton really conveys her frustrations with life/men, and you really start to feel for her and root for her. Little Hallie Kate Eisenberg, as the daughter, comes off as much more sweeter than Quinn Cummings (whose procociousness in the original film you either loved or hated). Jeff Daniels wisely steers away from channeling Richard Dreyfuss, being more natural and less sitcom-y than his predecessor. The only problem I had with Daniels is his character's performance in the ill-advised "Richard III" production: I thought the point was that Elliot was a very *good* actor, lost in a poorly-directed production. Daniel's Elliot plays Richard III as an extremely broad parody. Heaton and Daniels do make cute couple, and thier romantic moments are very convincing. All in all, a pleasant time-killer of a film, with no point except to compare 1977 NYC to a(much prettier)2004 NYC. It does, however, pose the question: were New York actors so underpaid in 2004 as to not be able to afford a cellphone?
Nothing to email home about it
2009-03-24 - It's a nice movie but how anyone in their right mind can give it a 5 star review? 5 stars means better than great movies and this 2004 tv version of Neil Simon's Goodbye Girl it's definetely not a great movie. Jeff Daniels feels as unconfortable in the part as his out of luck actor character feels playing a gay Richard III, and Patricia Heaton its ok but not better than in Everybody loves Raymond. I saw the original movie when I was just a kid in the 70's and enjoy it, seeing it in the 2004 version yesterday on tv, not much has changed, only celulars falling down the stairs so the phone booth must be used. Fine seeing this new version of Goodbye Girl on tv, but nothing to email home about it.
Patricia Heaton is Awesome!!!
2008-12-01 - This is a fantastic remake of Neil Simon's "The Goodbye Girl"!!! Patricia Heaton and Jeff Daniels are spectacular! Great flick...just keep the tissue box close by as it's a real tear-jerker!
The Goodbye Girl
2008-02-18 - I first saw this play at the movie theatre with Richard Dryfus and Marsha Mason. I was really too young to understand it at the time. I do know that I did not need to see it again. The story was not difficult to follow and it was a cute story about a woman scorned by failed relationships with earlier roommate (male actors) and she wanted to change her life for the better.
The remake of the movie was really funny. The script stayed very much on cue with the Richard Dryfus movie. But, I really laughed myself to death on this one. The setting and fashion was more up to date. But I felt that Jeff Daniel played a little less intense a personality than Richard Dryfus. Richard Dryfuss played a little too intense a character. He seemed to be rather rude and self centered, whereas Daniels was more human in my opinion. Especially when the play was being performed. When you see his face in the dressing room after his performance on its opening night! I am laughing as I am writing this, I can still see his expression!
Perhaps being older has made the difference in my viewpoint, but I am so happy to have this movie in my video collections. I am not disappointed, I think it is funny.
Bobbi
