Plaza Suite

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Plaza Suite

PG-13

1971

1h 55m

Comedy

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In a film based on Neil Simon's hit play, Walter Matthau portrays three unconnected roles. Sam Nash reluctantly joins his wife, Karen (Maureen Stapleton), in the suite where they spent their honeymoon, hoping to revive their flagging marriage. Then Jesse Kiplinger, an aging movie producer, is determined to seduce his old flame, Muriel (Barbara Harris). Finally, Matthau is beleaguered father Roy Hubley who, with his wife, Norma (Lee Grant), struggles to get their daughter to her own wedding.

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Critics Consensus

Featuring three Walter Matthau performances for the price of one, Plaza Suite is an uneven but overall entertaining Neil Simon adaptation.

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Penelope Gilliatt

The New Yorker

01/29/2024

It is a minor agony: humorless, loveless, calorie-scared.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

08/29/2021

Even though Mr. Matthau is one of America's finest comic actors, I found most of his work here filled with desperation, quite like the rather ratty hairpieces he wears to differentiate the three characters he plays.

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

08/29/2021

3.5/4

It may be there could never be too much Matthau. With "Plaza Suite" and "A New Leaf" he has reestablished himself as one of our funniest actors, proving that role selection is a crucial element in an actor's competence.

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Tom Hutchinson

Radio Times

08/29/2021

3/5

You get three Walter Matthaus for the price of one here, as he cynically bulldozes his way through three acts of Neil Simon's play about the goings-on in a swanky hotel suite.

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John Huddy

Miami Herald

08/29/2021

"Plaza Suite" goes sour immediately and even talented performers the caliber of Walter Matthau, Barbara Harris, and Lee Grant can't quite salvage the film treatment of Neil Simon's three-act hit play.

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steve d

@RT35616104 07/17/2020

None of the stories worked for me.

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deke p

@RT96675217 01/14/2017

Vaguely recall seeing it in theater when it came out, i think. Not too memorable for me. But it and Neil Simon was widely heralded.

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ashley h

@ashleyhobgood87 08/07/2016

Plaza Suite is a disappointing film. It is about relationship issues are presented and taking place in suite 719 of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Walter Matthau and Maureen Stapleton give horrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. Arthur Hiller did a terrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture.

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01/09/2015

gr8 cast makes this one go

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10/27/2013

Based on Neil Simon's hit broadway play with three vignettes, each starring Matthau. The first is about a married couple with the husband admitting to a n extra marital relationship on the day of their anniversary. The second is about a producer seducing a young woman. The third is about the mother and father of a bride-to-be who locked herself in the bathroom moments before the wedding. All these vignettes take place at a Plaza suite. This is really a great showcase for Matthau's charisma and comedic personality. He really gets a chance to shine. However, Plaza Suite is not so well translated to the big screen here, in a stagey and overall underwhelming cinematic version that nevertheless does not undermine the charm and wit of the original material by Neil Simon. Nevertheless, it's not quite as memorable as it should have been, and for that reason it comes across as rather disappointing.

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05/15/2013

A great Neil Simon play put to film.

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Synopsis

In a film based on Neil Simon's hit play, Walter Matthau portrays three unconnected roles. Sam Nash reluctantly joins his wife, Karen (Maureen Stapleton), in the suite where they spent their honeymoon, hoping to revive their flagging marriage. Then Jesse Kiplinger, an aging movie producer, is determined to seduce his old flame, Muriel (Barbara Harris). Finally, Matthau is beleaguered father Roy Hubley who, with his wife, Norma (Lee Grant), struggles to get their daughter to her own wedding.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Producer: Howard W. Koch
Screenwriter: Neil Simon
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2011
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Stereo