The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977 features the Golden Globes Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) winner, Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl. Written by Neil Simon, directed by Herbert Ross and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason and Quinn Cummings, The Goodbye Girl won an Oscar for Dreyfuss and four Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy).

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, Vincent Canby in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/01/archives/film-goodbye-girl-full-of-wisecracks.html), and Donald McLean in the Bay Area Reporter.

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