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The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
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Release Date:
3 November 1970 (USA)
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Plot:
Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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1 nomination
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This film has enough laughs for 10 motion pictures combined
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Barbra Streisand | ... | Doris | |
| George Segal | ... | Felix | |
| Robert Klein | ... | Barney | |
| Allen Garfield | ... | Dress Shop Proprietor | |
| Roz Kelly | ... | Eleanor | |
| Jacques Sandulescu | ... | Rapzinsky | |
| Jack Manning | ... | Mr. Weyderhaus | |
| Grace Carney | ... | Mrs. Weyderhaus | |
| Bárbara Ansón | ... | Miss Weyderhaus | |
| Kim Chan | ... | Theatre Cashier | |
| Stan Gottlieb | ... | Coatcheck Man | |
| Joe Madden | ... | Old Man Neighbor | |
| Fay Sappington | ... | Old Woman Neighbor | |
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| Marilyn Chambers | ... | Barney's Girl (as Evelyn Lang) | |
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95 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:PG (edited for re-rating) (1972) |
Australia:M |
Iceland:12 |
Singapore:PG |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1971) |
Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1989) |
Argentina:16 |
Chile:18 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (original rating)
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Barbra Streisand's first non-musical film.
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Continuity: At the very beginning, Doris huddles in a doorway to get out of the rain. As a bus pulls up to the kerb, she starts to walk towards it, but in the next tighter shot Doris still in the doorway. The next shot, back on the street, Doris is already on her way towards the bus.
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Felix:
I'm extremely sorry but I don't know the story to "The Sound Of Music".
Doris: Oh no, that's terrible.
Felix: You thought "The Sound Of Music" was terrible?
Doris: Four times I saw that terrible movie.
Felix: You must have really hated it.
Doris: I saw it with my friend Eleanor at the Loew's King now torn down. It was playing continuous, no intermission. Get it?
Felix: I don't think so.
Doris: Her bladder burst.
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Doris: Oh no, that's terrible.
Felix: You thought "The Sound Of Music" was terrible?
Doris: Four times I saw that terrible movie.
Felix: You must have really hated it.
Doris: I saw it with my friend Eleanor at the Loew's King now torn down. It was playing continuous, no intermission. Get it?
Felix: I don't think so.
Doris: Her bladder burst.
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Referenced in Ken Adam: Designing Bond (2000) (V)
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One of the most hilarious films ever made, THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT has more laughs than ten of today's so-called "comedies" combined. Even though a few set changes and a couple of new supporting characters are added to "open up" the storyline, director Herbert Ross and writer Buck Henry manage to keep the same spirit of the original one-act, two-character play intact. There's a lot of verbal warfare in Henry's screenplay, and he seems to have a gift for penning wickedly funny dialogue. Some viewers could argue that THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT is little more than two characters insulting each other for 95 minutes, but - when those insults are so rigorously funny - who cares?
In the female lead, Barbra Streisand gives a refreshingly unsentimental performance as Doris, the semi-illiterate hooker who (for once) does not have a heart of gold. George Segal was primarily known as a dramatic actor before he was cast as Felix, the snotty book clerk/writer-wannabe. His performance is so convincing that he has been known as an expert comic ever since. The chemistry between Streisand and Segal ignites from the beginning, and it stays aflame throughout their relationship's many ups and downs. Robert Klien has a funny supporting role - and plays it expertly - but THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT remains a showcase for the chemistry between Streisand and Segal. I think well-respected film critic Pauline Kael said it best when she wrote, "Were Tracy and Hepburn ever this good. . . maybe, but they were never better." High praise indeed!