California Suite 1978 123movies

Watch: California Suite 1978 123movies, Full Movie Online – Four totally different and separate stories of guests staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Diane Barrie (Dame Maggie Smith) and Sidney Cochran (Sir Michael Caine) come from England to attend the Oscars; Hannah Warren (Jane Fonda) comes from New York City, Bill Warren (Alan Alda) is her ex who lives in California; in the slapstick part, Dr. Willis Panama (Bill Cosby), Dr. Chauncey Gump (Richard Pryor), and their wives come to the hotel to relax and play tennis, only to find there is only one room vacant; in the fourth segment, Marvin Michaels (Walter Matthau) arrives a day before his wife for his nephew’s Bar Mitzvah, while his brother Harry (Herb Edelman) sends a prostitute to his room..
Plot: The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 7,509
	50% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 84 Popularity: 8.109 | TMDB

Reviews:

My brief review of the film
An ensemble cast that dreams are made of is present in this film, and all deliver quite well, even Walter Matthau who goes a bit over-the-top. Smith deservedly won an Oscar for her role as a screen actress loses her first Oscar nomination in a very long career. As her husband, Caine is also good, but the next two best performances come from Fonda and Alda as a bickering divorced couple. Those four performers, however, only cover two out of four tales in this film, and the other two are not as well as acted and neither are they filled with the same quality of witty dialogue. It is bit weird to watch the overall film, as it becomes fragmented by the transitions between each of the stories, and towards the end the lesser interesting tales dominate. With just the Fonda/Alda and Smith/Caine stories, this is excellent, very well written stuff. With all four put together, it is still quite interesting stuff, but nothing too great.

Mediocre Simon is better than none…
California SUITE is the 1978 film adaptation of Neil Simons’ quartet of one-acts set at swank Los Angeles hotel. Out of the four stories, the strongest is “Visitors from London” which stars Maggie Smith as an actress in town for the Academy Awards after receiving her first nomination, in deep denial about her in-name only marriage to a closeted antique dealer (Michael Caine). Smith delivers a flawless comedy performance that ironically won her her second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actress. Caiine is just as effective in this bittersweet tale. “Visitors from New York” stars Jane Fonda as a workaholic New Yorker who has flown to California to retrieve her daughter (Dana Plato) who flew away from home to move in with Fonda’s ex (Alan Alda). Fonda’s character is a little on the unsympathetic side but she and Alda make their scenes work. “Visitors from Philadelphia” stars Walter Matthau as a man in town for a convention who tries to conceal from his visiting wife (Elaine May) that there’s a passed out hooker in his bed. This episode is pure slapstick with little substance but Matthau makes it bearable. The other episode “Visitors from Chicago” stars Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Sheila Frazier, and Gloria Gifford as two couples vacationing together who get involved in some silly travel situations. This is definitely the weakest of the four playlets and looks like it should be in another movie of its own. A well-mounted, but spotty effort at best, California SUITE is worth the rental for the glorious performance of Maggie Smith alone.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Herbert Ross
Writer Neil Simon
Actors Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Lenses and Panaflex Camera by Panavision
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm