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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 poignant and hilarious vision of everyday people struggling to survive. (Smith, interestingly enough, won an Oscar for her role in the film.)Product Identifiers
ProducerRay Stark
EAN5050582359299
eBay Product ID (ePID)3945060
Product Key Features
ActorAlan Alda, Michael Caine, Elaine May, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Walter Matthau, Jane Fonda, Sheila Frazier, Maggie Smith
Film/TV TitleCalifornia Suite
DirectorHerbert Ross
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time99 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen
Release Year2005
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerClaude Bolling
Production DesignerAlbert Brenner
AwardsBest Actress In A Supporting Role 1979 - Maggie Smith
ReviewsNew York Times - Included in the New York Times's "10 BEST FILMS OF 1978", Variety - ...Fonda demonstrates yet another aspect of her amazing range, making her one of the most dynamic feminine screen stars in decades...
ScreenwriterNeil Simon
Costume DesignerPatricia Norris, Ann Roth
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
CinematographerDavid M. Walsh
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Sound sourceMono
EditorMichael A. Stevenson
Movie/TV TitleCalifornia Suite