Oscar Brodrick Research Paper

1965, in an 8 room New York apartment on Riverside Drive lived a recently divorced man named Oscar Madison. Oscar held a poker game once a week in his apartment for his friends Felix Ungar, Murray, Speed, Roy, and Vinnie. The guys were starting to get a little worried when Felix, who never missed a night of poker in two years never showed for a game. While they were all discussing where he might be, Felix’s wife calls looking for him. See Felix left, after his wife told him she was filing for divorce the next day after 12 years of marriage. A short time later Felix shows up at the poker game and the guys are concerned he may try to commit suicide so they watch him like a hawk. Oscar invited Felix to move in since he had nowhere else to go and they could split the bills plus Oscar was lonely himself. The problem you see is that Oscar is a sloppy, carefree, and disorganized man, whereas Felix is a neat, detailed, and organized man. Day by day for the next three weeks, they start to drive each other crazy. Oscar convinces Felix that they go out on a date
The poker buddies included Murray played by Brad Garrett, who is a NYPD cop. Speed, who is sarcastic, smokes cigars and picks on the others. There is Roy the accountant, who smokes cigarettes and complains about Speeds cigars smelling, and then Vinnie who is calm but henpecked. Cecily Pigeon, who is divorced and Gwendolyn Pigeon who is widowed are the two silly English sisters from upstairs that had a date night with Oscar and Felix. All the actors did a great job with their characters, even Matthew Broderick’s character Felix which was starting to get on my nerves by the play’s ending with the squeaky, nasal voice. The actor playing Roy seemed to walk too rigid to be believable, but Nathan Lane played his character, Oscar