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Synopsis: Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Jay Sandrich
Production: Columbia Pictures Corporation
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
PG
Year:
1980
102 min
995 Views


Come back here!

Aurora, what are you doing here?

Hold that

Whose dog is this?

Uh, me.

They're mine, Your Honor.

The dogs work for you, too?

Only two of them.

The other four are visiting.

I want quiet in this courtroom!

I don't expect to get it,

but let's go for it anyway.

- Quiet! Quiet, please! Quiet!

Will somebody tell me

what happened? Please.

- Uh, me, me, Mr. Honor.

- No!

My name is Aurora De La Hoya. I'm

the cook for Mr. and Mrs. Parks.

- I come back

to work this morning.

- I was in the hospital.

I had to get my feet scraped.

She had to have

her feet scraped.

Please. Order, please.

Mrs. Parks, would you please

remove this dog.

He's dribbling on my briefs.

Oh! Excuse me.

- BAILIFF:
Quiet! Quiet!

- Come on, Hamlet. Let's go.

Please, will you

keep them quiet.

Are you listening to me?

- Oh, I'm sorry. Continue.

- Okay.

- All right continue.

- Anyway I go to the bank this morning

- to get the money to feed all these dogs

- Wait a minute

And all of a sudden

these two gringos

grabs me outside and say,

"Hey, you!

We're gonna rob a bank, lady."

I get so scared,

I can't think how to scream

"Help" in English.

But inside the car,

the doggies see they had got me,

and they get worried, because

if something happens to Aurora

they don't get their hamburger tonight.

You understand?

So the doggies jump out

and grab the gringos and

chew them all up into pieces.

Your Honor. Your Honor?

My client just told me

that these are men who kidnapped him

and forced him to rob the bank.

And were apprehended by your

cook and six of your own dogs?

Only two of the dogs

are ours, sir.

The other four acted

on their own responsibility.

Order, please.

I assume from these statements that these

gentlemen here are willing to plea-bargain

in return for admitting the innocence of

Mr. Gardenia. Is that correct, gentlemen?

Yeah. And, you know,

man, yeah.

Well said.

Well spoken, Bee Gee.

So, apparently, we've cleared

everything up.

And all before lunch. Oh, I love

things when they zip along.

Case dismissed.

Court's adjourned

until 2:
00 p.m.

- All right, all right.

That's enough now.

You keep away from my wife,

keep away from my house.

Keep away from my car, my tuxedo,

my chicken and especially my bed.

If I look under there and even

see a pair of slippers,

I'm gonna shoot first

and try them on after.

Come on, honey.

Ira, I'm sorry I'm late.

Somebody stole my car.

NICHOLAS:
Glenda.

Can I have just

one minute with you?

Just one minute, Ira.

Time it.

- You wouldn't.

- You couldn't.

What if I said, "The hell with trying

to change."? What if I said

"I'm still nuts about you."?

What if I didn't say anything

and grabbed you and ran?

I I probably wouldn't do

anything for a couple of weeks.

And then I'd come to my senses

and run back to Ira.

I love him, Nick.

We have respect for each other

and regard and esteem.

I love the way your eyes

curl up when you look at me.

I'm sorry. Regard, esteem

And he's sweet and gentle.

And he's very sexy.

Very sexy?

Extremely sexy.

Extremely?

Enormously sexy.

He's one of the sexiest men

I've ever met

Well, look, I gotta be

running along, uh,

I'm kind of busy.

Very happy for you, Glenda.

Thank you, Nick.

Would you mind if I give

you a small kiss goodbye?

No, I'd like that very much.

Think Ira would mind?

Probably.

Think we should ask him?

Probably.

Yo, Ira.

Is it okay if I

kiss her goodbye?

No.

Just one little kiss.

Time it.

Well

Bye, Nick.

Bye, Glen.

So long, Ira. You take

good care of our girl.

Ira, let's get away.

Let's take a vacation.

Just the two of us.

I think we need time away

from work and careers.

Time to get to

know each other again.

Sounds good to me.

Let's just get in the car

and drive.

As long as there's no phones.

- No dogs.

- No dogs.

GLENDA:
And no-one else in the

world who knows where we are.

Well, you got your wish.

No one in the world

knows where we are,

including us.

Maybe we should ask if

there's a motel around here.

Good idea.

Is there a motel around here?

Ira!

- GLENDA:
Don't hit him!

BOTH:
Oh!

Honey Ira

Honey, are you all right?

I'm all right.

Why is it always animals?

- Honey

- Oh, my leg! I think my leg's broken.

- I'm fine.

Okay.

- Yeah.

No, don't, don't.

Just go get some help.

- I don't wanna leave you.

- No, leave me.

- Go to a telephone quick. It's okay.

- All right.

- All right. I'll be right back.

- Okay.

- I'll be back as soon as I can.

- I love you.

- I love you.

Go away. Go away.

Go home. Go home!

Oh, God! Oh

Oh

Oh Oh!

Oh.

Oh, thank God!

- Help!

Help! Is anybody home?

There's been an accident!

- GLENDA:
Help! Help!

Help!

I need help!

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. more…

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