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The Goodbye Girl
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
1977 · Directed by Herbert Ross · 111 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 10 frames
Tagline
Thank you Neil Simon for making us laugh at falling in love... again.
Crew
- Written by: Neil Simon
- Cinematography: David M. Walsh
- Edited by: John F. Burnett
- Music: Dave Grusin
- Production design: Albert Brenner
- Produced by: Ray Stark
Cast
- Richard Dreyfuss as Elliot Garfield
- Marsha Mason as Paula McFadden
- Quinn Cummings as Lucy McFadden
- Paul Benedict as Mark
- Barbara Rhoades as Donna
- Theresa Merritt as Mrs. Crosby
- Michael Shawn as Ronnie
- Patricia Pearcy as Rhonda
- Gene Castle as Assistant Choreographer
- Marilyn Sokol as Linda
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Rastar Productions
- Box office: $102,000,000
- Themes: ballet dancer, theater play, family abandonment, single mother, precocious child, manhattan, new york city, aspiring actor
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