Neil Simon adapted his own play for the big screen, pairing Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two divorced men with opposite personalities deciding to live together. A huge hit, The Odd Couple was one of the biggest domestic hits of the year, with the $44.5m gross equal to over $300m today. Simon also scored an Academy Award nomination for the script, while the movie, Lemmon and Matthau were all nominated for Golden Globes. A full 30 years later, The Odd Couple was finally given the sequel that nobody wanted, and it came very close to tarnishing the reputation of the original classic. The long-delayed sequel was probably greenlit as a direct result of the success that Lemmon and Matthau had enjoyed with the Grumpy Old Men movies, and marked an ignominious end to the duo's long-running screen partnership. A box office bomb, the Odd Couple II is an uninspired and incredibly disappointing follow-up, making audiences wonder just why they'd waited three decades to make something so bad.