California Suite PG
The best two-hour vacation in town!
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Bill Cosby, Walter Matthau, Elaine May & Richard Pryor | |
Performer: | Sheila Frazier, Herb Edelman, Gloria Gifford, Dana Plato & Lupe Ontiveros | |
Directed by | Herbert Ross | |
Edited by | Michael A. Stevenson | |
Screenwriting by | Neil Simon | |
Composition by | Claude Bolling | |
Cinematography by | David M. Walsh | |
Produced by | Ray Stark |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1978 -
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith
Entertainment Reviews:
California Suite is the third script by Neil Simon that Herbert Ross shoots, and it's also his worst. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Quick and varied comedy, highly suited to Neil Simon's machine-gun gag-writing.
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Time Out
...Simon in top form....The writer and the director have assembled a dream cast...
New York Times
Rating: C- --
For one of the acts in Neil Simon's stale anthology, Maggie Smith won a Supporting Oscar for playing a hard-drinking actress who complains to her bisexual husband (Michael Caine) that "Acting doesn't win Oscars. What I need is a dying father."
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The desperation of the director, Herbert Ross, is embarrassingly obvious in the Crazy Gang antics of this foursome.
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The Spectator
Less than successful, veering from poignant emotionalism to broad slapstick in sudden shifts.
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Variety
...Fonda demonstrates yet another aspect of her amazing range, making her one of the most dynamic feminine screen stars in decades...
Variety
Product Description:
Neil Simon's bittersweet comedy, adapted from the Broadway hit, follows four separate stories of guests who've just checked into the swank Beverly Hills Hotel over the weekend of the Academy Awards gala. The four-part story line runs the gamut from touching introspection to outright slapstick. Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) are an angry divorced duo engaged in a nasty custody battle over their daughter. Marvin Michaels (Walter Matthau) is in town a day before his devoted wife (Elaine May) for his nephew's bar mitzvah when his brother sends him a present that is difficult to hide--a hooker. Diana Barrie (Maggie Smith) is an Oscar-nominated British actress in town for the Academy Awards with her husband, Sydney (Michael Caine), who happens to be gay. Competing doctors Willis Panama (Bill Cosby) and Chauncey Gump (Richard Pryor) have been busy containing calamities befalling them since they arrived and discovered they had to share a hotel room with their crestfallen wives. CALIFORNIA SUITE, in the capable hands of director Herbert Ross, is a simultaneously touching and hilarious vision of everyday people struggling to survive. (Smith, interestingly enough, won an Oscar for her role in the film.)
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