Chapter Two is a 1979 American Metrocolor romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Moore, produced by Ray Stark, and based on Neil Simon's 1977 Broadway play of the same name.

George is given the phone number of a Jennie MacLaine, an actress Leo recently met through his friend Faye Medwick, and dials it accidentally while intending to call someone else.

[4] The film was the fourth collaboration between Simon, producer Stark and Columbia Pictures after Murder By Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978) and California Suite (1978).

[7] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film two out of four stars, writing "Chapter Two is called a comedy, maybe because that's what we expect from Neil Simon.

"[9] Janet Maslin of The New York Times described the love affair as "a whirlwind courtship with a gentle, lazy pace, which is one of many reasons why the film version feels self-contradictory, or at least incomplete.

Fortunately, Miss Mason gives a vibrant, appealing performance that minimizes the movie's troubles and encourages the audience to sit back and enjoy the scenery.

Ray Stark's film version of Simon's successful and loosely autobiographical play is tender, compassionate and gently humorous all at once.

"[11] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it "Simon's most successful transference so far of play into film", with a performance by Mason that was "simply remarkable.

"[13] Writing in The New Yorker, Roger Angell observed that "James Caan, who is required to stare miserably out of a lot of different windows, seems ill at ease when delivering banter and/or moody musings.

"[14] Filmink argued the movie "has brilliant source material and Mason is perfect but – as much as I hate to admit this – is sunk by Caan’s performance, which plays all of the grief of his widow character, and none of the humour.

In a deleted scene included with the DVD release of the episode, Jerry retaliates by breaking up with her using dialogue copied word-for-word from Plaza Suite, another Neil Simon film.