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Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) have rented a suite in a posh Beverly Hills hotel in order to have a discussion about who will get the custody of their child. In the next episode, Sidney Cochran and
Dec 15, 1978 Wide
Jan 2, 2002
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Less than successful, veering from poignant emotionalism to broad slapstick in sudden shifts.
Means middle-class angst covered with a thin veneer of snappy one-liners and presented in the most anonymous directorial style imaginable.
The West Coast version of Plaza Suite.
An all-star bitch fest, slickly served.
Quick and varied comedy, highly suited to Neil Simon's machine-gun gag-writing.
Maggie Smith won a seond, Supporting Oscar for playing a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who complains to her bisexual antique-dealer husband (Michael Caine), "Acting doesn't win Oscars. What I need is a dying father."
Dire: good actors playing the worst versions of one-dimensional Neil Simon joke machines.
sharp script and acting
Offensive, stupid, and embarrassing.
California Suite offers audiences a fine blend of laughter and variety which is the spice of good comic cinema.
Middle-level Simon, bright lines, brightly delivered, but too theatrical.
All-star Neil Simon adaptation houses enough laughs to warrant a visit.
Neil Simon don't do a very good work, like another films written by he. The first hour, California Suite is nothing poignant. After, the movie get better, but the audience in that point don't want continue to watch.
May 11, 2011Super Reviewer
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