Tag: Neil Simon; Walter Matthau; father; daughter; screenwriter

I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)

I really think that Neil Simon has a grasp on family drama, of people disconnected and reconnected with all of the messy emotional baggage that goes along with it.  He knows how to set it up, and his actors know how to play it to the bone.  And yet, why can’t Simon write dialogue that […]