often laugh out loud and sometimes sad story of 2 work divorce guy lemmon a neurotic clean house husband and matthau a slob sportswriter who decide to live together to cut down on expense . nicely photographed and direct . the script be very barbed that be and there always more than one side to almost every line . particularly funny scene involve 2 british sister ( evans and shelley ) who seem amuse by everything anyone say and but when lemmon bust out his photo of kid and and yes and ex wife to be and he have the girl sob along with him before matthau can show up with the promised drink . very entertaining .