California Suite

Neil Simon’s hit Broadway comedy — a sequel of sorts to his Plaza Suite — enlists the same format of four distinctive sketches, this time set in the sun-soaked Beverly Hills Hotel. But Simon is texturing his stories with a darker veneer than the older sketches from Plaza Suite, with self-conscious and variable results. The first episode concerns Bill and Hannah (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda), a divorced couple who meet at a suite at the hotel to figure out who will get the custody of their child. Sidney Cochran (Michael Caine) and Diana Barrie (Maggie Smith) are a couple of pretentious movie stars who rent a suite while waiting the Oscar ceremony. Willis Panama (Bill Cosby) and Chauncey Gump (Richard Pryor), two black doctors, rent another suite at the hotel for a family vacation, all goes wrong, and they end up fighting with each other. In the final episode, Marvin (Walter Matthau) has to explain to his wife (Elaine May) why he’s been found in the sack with a hooker., The Beverly Hills Hotel is the scene of this quartet of bittersweet stories adapted by Neil Simon from his Broadway play. A divorced couple argue over child custody, two British film stars are in town for the Oscars, two couples find their holiday descending into a nightmare, and a man with a hooker is thrown into a panic by his wife’s arrival. Maggie Smith won an Academy Award for her performance., A stellar cast packed with talent in five stories of love and dilemma. Maggie Smith is the actress indignant at not winning an Oscar (she won one for this role), Walter Matthau the married man who struggles to explain a svelte young blonde in his bed., Adaptation of Neil Simon’s stage hit about intertwining stories connecting five couples staying at a Beverly Hills hotel. Among them: a divorcing duo; husband-and-wife actors; a pair of vacationing doctors and their families; and a philander caught in the act by his spouse. Maggie Smith won a Best Supporting Oscar for her role as the actress in town to hopefully pick up an Academy Award., The Beverly Hills Hotel is the scene of this quarted to bittersweet stories adapted by neil Simon from his Broadway success. A dvorced couple argue over child custody, two British film stars are in town for the Oscars, two couples find their holiday descending into a nightmare, and a man with a hooker is thrown into a panic by his wife’s arrival. Maggie Smith won an academy award for her performance – as an actress who wins an Oscar., Four sets of guests that check into a posh Beverly Hills hotel, to find that they’d have been better off staying at home! Oscar winning comedy starring Michael Caine., Adaptation of Neil Simon’s stage hit about intertwining stories connecting five couples staying at a Beverly Hills hotel. Among them: a divorcing duo; husband-and-wife actors; a pair of vacationing doctors and their families; and a philander caught in the act by his spouse.