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The Goodbye Girl

1977 · Film · 111 min

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance

Plot

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

About The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Neil Simon and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict. The film, produced by Ray Stark, centers on an odd trio of characters: a struggling actor who has sublet a Manhattan apartment from a friend, the current occupant (his friend's ex-girlfriend, who has just been abandoned), and her precocious young daughter. Richard Dreyfuss won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Elliot Garfield. At the time, he became the youngest man (at age 30) to win an Oscar for Best Actor. Both Mason and Cummings were nominated for Oscars. The film became the first romantic comedy to earn $100 million in box-office grosses.

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Cast

  • Richard DreyfussElliot Garfield
  • Marsha MasonPaula McFadden
  • Quinn CummingsLucy McFadden
  • Paul BenedictMark
  • Barbara RhoadesDonna
  • Theresa MerrittMrs. Crosby
  • Michael ShawnRonnie
  • Patricia PearcyRhonda
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