Roommates and radicals Andy Hobart and Norman Cornell are two earnest young men using their San Francisco apartment as a publishing office for their magazine, Fallout, which is dedicated to fighting "the system" in America, but they barely make a living working on the magazine.
Meanwhile, Andy finds himself dealing with angry phone calls from the printer demanding payment, while also trying to divert the landlady's attention away from unpaid rent by taking her on motorcycle rides and surfing trips.
As the story unfolds, Sophie develops feelings for Andy, despite their political differences, which puts both the magazine and their friendship at risk of falling apart.
"[1] While it features Simon's lively comic style—still on display on Broadway in Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple when The Star-Spangled Girl debuted—it was not well received.
Rene Carpenter herself later recounted in For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut (New York: Harcourt, 2003) a wholly different conversation with Chayefsky.
[2] Critic Walter Kerr's review in The New York Times determined, "Neil Simon, your friendly neighborhood gagman, hasn't had an idea for a play this season, but he's gone ahead and written one anyway.
[5] The original cast featured Anthony Perkins as Andy, Richard Benjamin as Norman and Connie Stevens as Sophie.
The cast starred Tony Roberts as Andy, Todd Susman as Norman and Sandy Duncan as Amy (renamed from Sophie).
"[10] The movie also features Davy Jones singing "Girl," which he also sang in an episode of the television series The Brady Bunch