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Marsha Mason is known as "The Goodbye Girl" because of all the live-in boyfriends who have said ta-ta to her in the past few years. A former Broadway chorus dancer, the divorced Mason lives in the Manhattan apartment of her latest lost love with her daughter Quinn Cummings. Enter arrogant actor Richard Dreyfuss, who has subleased the apartment from Mason's former boyfriend and moves in bag and baggage in the middle of the night. Dreyfuss and Mason spend the next few weeks getting in each other's way and fighting like cats and dogs. The wind is taken out of Dreyfuss' sails when he opens in a production of "Richard III", which has been sabotaged by the director (Paul Benjamin), who insists that Dreyfuss portrays Richard as a hip-swinging homosexual. The play closes after one performance, and the once-overconfident Dreyfuss goes on a self-pitying drunken binge. Touched by his vulnerability, Mason begins falling in love with Dreyfuss despite her lousy track record with men. Richard Dreyfuss became the youngest ever "Best Actor" Oscar winner as a result of his performance. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Disc #1 -- Goodbye Girl
1. Scene 1 [2:54]
2. Scene 2 [3:26]
3. Scene 3 [2:03]
4. Scene 4 [3:46]
5. Scene 5 [3:25]
6. Scene 6 [4:15]
7. Scene 7 [2:49]
8. Scene 8 [2:58]
9. Scene 9 [2:50]
10. Scene 10 [2:59]
11. Scene 11 [3:31]
12. Scene 12 [6:21]
13. Scene 13 [2:39]
14. Scene 14 [4:42]
15. Scene 15 [5:46]
16. Scene 16 [5:21]
17. Scene 17 [2:27]
18. Scene 18 [1:26]
19. Scene 19 [6:12]
20. Scene 20 [3:33]
21. Scene 21 [2:43]
22. Scene 22 [2:26]
23. Scene 23 [4:24]
24. Scene 24 [4:18]
25. Scene 25 [2:10]
26. Scene 26 [4:37]
27. Scene 27 [3:00]
28. Scene 28 [2:05]
29. Scene 29 [6:36]
30. Scene 30 [1:49]
31. End Credits [2:44]
Cinematographer - David M. Walsh
Composer (Music Score) - Dave Grusin
Costume Designer - Seth Banks
Costume Designer - Ann Roth
Costume Designer - Shirley Strahm
First Assistant Director - Jack Roe
Production Designer - Albert Brenner
Publicist - Regina Gruss
Songwriter - David Gates
Sound/Sound Designer - Jerry Jost
Sound/Sound Designer - James J. Sabat
Sound/Sound Designer - Wiliam L. McCaughey
Special Effects - Albert Griswold
With a witty screenplay by Neil Simon and an excellent cast, The Goodbye Girl (1977) had the pieces in place for an utterly appealing romantic comedy. Lightly directed by Herbert Ross, Simon's apartment-sharing scenario uniting a wary single mother with a struggling actor finds the humor in a quintessentially contemporary milieu of serial relationships, commitment-phobia, and New York real estate. Then-wife of Simon, Marsha Mason revealed her talent for comedy as well as dramatic emotion in her performance as the gun-shy Paula, while newcomer Quinn Cummings was charmingly self-assured as her young daughter, Lucy. Rising star Richard Dreyfuss' Elliott was both broadly hilarious playing an ill-conceived Richard III and charmingly sensitive as a romantic lead. Greeted as a straightforward piece of joyful escapism, The Goodbye Girl became an unexpected hit, and earned several Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. Ross was nominated for directing "The Turning Point" (1977) instead. The 29-year-old Dreyfuss took home the Best Actor statuette, becoming the youngest winner of the award. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Richard Dreyfuss : Best Actor - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1978
Richard Dreyfuss : Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1977
Marsha Mason : Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1977
Neil Simon : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1977
Quinn Cummings : Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1977
Richard Dreyfuss : Best Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1977
Marsha Mason : Best Actress - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1977
Neil Simon : Best Original Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1977
Raymond Stark : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1977
Quinn Cummings : Best Supporting Actress - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1977
Richard Dreyfuss : Best Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1977
