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Released
1968 · FILM

The Odd Couple

When neurotic neat‑freak Felix moves in with his carefree, mess‑loving friend Oscar to escape loneliness, their opposite habits spark a comedic battle for control of the apartment and their own sanity.

“...say no more.”

Directed by
Gene Saks
Written by
Neil Simon
Rated
BBFC · PG
Runtime
106 min
Comedy
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who has recently ended his marriage, is encouraged by his unpredictable friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him. However, their contrasting lifestyles quickly lead to friction, as Felix's preferences for order and cleanliness begin to annoy Oscar.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Frank BrachtShot by Robert B HauserScored by Neal Hefti

Box Office

1968 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 37× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$44.5M

Budget$1.2M
Worldwide gross$44.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Ein Seltsames Paarde
  • La extraña parejaes
  • Drôle de couplefr
  • La strana coppiait

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