The Odd Couple II Page #6

Synopsis: It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. One day, Oscar is called by his son Brucey who invites him to his wedding to Felix' daughter Hannah next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and take a rental car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding. The trip develops into an odyssey, starting with Oscar forgetting Felix' suitcase at the Budget station, going over to the complete loss of the directions (and the car), several difficulties with the police, a dead person, a toupee, underwear and revenge-hungry Cowboys and ending up with Felix meeting the "one and only" woman. But the wedding has to be reached on time.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Director(s): Howard Deutch
Production: Paramount Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
PG-13
Year:
1998
97 min
733 Views


one more time for one more crime,

one more time in his office

and he's gonna have a '"fourfecta'"!

So you shut the f*** up,

do you hear me?

I think you can get a fourfecta in Cuba,

but it's a cigar.

Let go of him! Sit down!

Sit down! Now!

Both of you!

Since the ladies gave me a statement

that you had nothing to do

with the abduction...

I have no reason to hold you.

I'm running for sheriff next year.

I can't run a campaign

of mostly arresting you two!

I wouldn't advice it.

If I promise to get you to San Malina

in time for the wedding

guarantee you will never come

within 100 miles of this town.

No, 200. Make it 300.

Since this is the first time in 74 years

that I have been here,

- the odds of me coming...

- Don't finish that sentence!

All right, let's go.

The wedding is at five o'clock.

How are we going to get there in time?

Leave that to me.

I wish you had subways around here.

I never get lost in subways.

I'll wait for you.

They made up?

The boys will spend a month in jail

for using firearms on a public vehicle.

They always get a month.

It's the fifth time they have done this!

It's a '"fivefecta'".

There is an airport

about five miles from here.

You can't land in San Malina, but in

Rockport. It's a 20 minute cab drive.

Rockport is a name

I could've remembered.

The flight will take 40 minutes.

This car will drop you off at the airport.

A police car!

Finally a ride I can feel safe in.

I hope you won't be offended,

but I hope I never see you again.

- Get out of here.

- If you'd like an endorsement...

No.

If those guys commit a triple murder,

or rob a bank...

...just let them go.

If some travel agent booked this trip,

we could have sued them for a fortune.

Everything happens for a reason.

All this isn't for nothing.

I have a feeling there's

a divine pay off at the end.

You want to buy my half?

I'll sell it cheap.

Here we are.

We're gonna actually make it.

Oscar?

- Is that you? It is you!

- Who's that?

I'm Felice Adams, Blanche's sister.

Felice? I didn't recognise you.

You haven't changed in 30 years!

Thank you. I guess we're both

going to the wedding, aren't we?

Are you here with your husband, Larry?

- Barry. He passed away four years ago.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

- You had two daughters?

- Now two granddaughters.

Isn't that something.

This is my friend, Felix Ungar.

- Felice, sister of my ex-wife.

- Felix Ungar?

- Blanche talked about you a lot.

- I've changed since then.

Haven't we all.

They are boarding.

I'll see you on the plane.

- We have to talk.

- About what?

On the plane.

- Have a good flight.

- Thank you, you too.

And you.

- If you want to talk - talk.

- Wait till the seat belt sign is off.

You can't talk with your seat belt on?

Is that a new federal law?

When it's on, it can get bumpy.

I don't want anything interrupting

what I'm going to say.

OK, it's safe, we're bumpless.

What have you got to say?

- That's the woman.

- What woman?

The '"somewhere, some place in this world,

the right woman for me'" - woman.

- Felice?

- Even the name is right.

Felice - Felix. The first three letters

are identical. It's like an omen.

I'm telling you, this is the one.

- Who's going to tell her you're the one?

- Me.

With the '"somewhere,

some place in this world'" speech?

Give me some credit.

I've done this 10 or 12 times already.

Help me figure out a reason

to get up and sit next to her.

How about... I don't know.

How about your seat is broken?

- No, I'm a bad liar. She'll know I'm lying.

- How about if I break your seat?

- Forget it. Wish me luck.

- Are you going to tell me what the plan is?

Just watch me. Move your legs.

- Good day for flying.

- Yes, perfect weather.

Exactly.

Some plan.

If you, you chicken-hearted,

gutless wimp

if you don't go back and sit next

to that woman, you and I are through!

Do you hear?

Had a nice chat, old buddy,

pal, dear close friend of mine?

- Relax. I just set it all up for you.

- What did you say to her?

I told her you were writing an article

for '"New York Sunday Times'"

about widowed women

and womanless men

and that you would like to ask her

a few questions.

- She said, '"Absolutely! '"

- Why did you tell her that for?

It's better than you going in to the john

and banging on the walls again.

Are you going, or do I have to get

a food trolley and wheel you over there?

- I'm going. I'm going.

- Good.

- May I?

- Please do.

First I must explain

about this article that I'm writing.

What article?

The one Oscar told you I was writing

for '"The New York Sunday Times'".

He never told me that.

He never...

- What was he saying to you?

- That you wanted to meet me

and couldn't think of a reason

to sit down next to me.

I said, '"Tell him to come over,

I'd like to meet him as well.'"

'Ladies and gentlemen,

we should be arriving

'at Rockport's '"Barbra Streisand

Airport'" in 20 minutes.'

How long has your late husband

been deceased?

Almost four years. He was playing tennis

and had a heart attack.

- My last wife went very quickly.

- We seem to have a lot in common.

I just realised,

we practically have the same name.

Felix - Felice,

same first three letters.

- Did that occur to you?

- No, but now that you mention it.

And both of you don't wear glasses.

That's uncanny.

Here we are.

I swear to you, this is it.

What a place!

Thank God you're here!

- What a mess.

- What is it, what's wrong?

I can't say it.

Blanche, you tell him.

- It's Brucey. He's gone!

- Gone where?

He disappeared! He wasn't in his room.

We even called the police.

Calm down, don't cry.

It's bad luck to cry before a wedding.

No, it's only bad luck if the groom

isn't here before the wedding.

- Didn't he leave a message?

- Nothing, not a clue!

He'll show up.

My kid never ducked anything.

How is Hannah?

Can I see my daughter?

She's upstairs getting dressed.

I haven't told her.

What do you mean

you haven't told her?

What are you waiting for,

her fifth anniversary of being alone?

- Don't yell at me!

- I'm yelling at the situation!

- You haven't changed in 30 years!

- I don't believe this woman!

I haven't seen her for 50 years

and she's still trying to finish

the last fight that we had!

Everybody, please stop

behaving like children!

We tried to put this wedding

together in three days

while you take a casual

joyride in getting here!

Casual?

It's always the woman's fault, right?

Stop pointing your finger at me and yelling!

You got two other husbands here

to do that with.

Come on, Felix.

I want to talk to you about something.

How about that, Frances?

I would love to divorce her again!

- What do you think happened to Brucey?

- I don't know.

- What did you call me out here for?

- I thought you might have an idea.

What do we do?

We wait and see. Worst comes to worst,

we postpone the wedding.

I'm not going to have my daughter

humiliated because of your ditzy son!

Watch what you say about my son.

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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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