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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 2, 2002
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 43 minutes
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• California Suite
• Neil Simon's California Suite (1978)
• Das Verrückte California Hotel (1979)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Marriage, Infidelity, Gay/Lesbian, Farce, Prostitution
Tagline: The best two-hour vacation in town!
Plot: 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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| Directed by |
Herbert Ross
Steel Magnolias, Footloose, The Secret of My Succe$s |
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| Written by |
Neil Simon
The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Biloxi Blues |
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| Cast |
Jane Fonda
Monster-in-Law, Barbarella, Nine to Five |
 | Alan Alda
The Aviator, What Women Want, Crimes and Misdemeanors |
 | Maggie Smith
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Gosford Park, Hook |
 | Michael Caine
Batman Begins, Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Cider House Rules |
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