The Goodbye Girl

Paula McFadden and her ten-year-old daughter live in a Manhattan apartment with her married boyfriend, Tony DeForrest. Tony subleased the apartment to Elliot Garfield, a neurotic but sweet aspiring actor from Chicago, who shows up in the middle of the night expecting to move in. Despite their frequent clashes and Paula's lack of gratitude for Elliot's help, the two fall in love and sleep together. Elliot gets a job at an improvisational theatre, and is soon seen by a film producer and is offered an opportunity for a role in a film that he cannot turn down.