Quick and varied comedy, highly suited to Neil Simon's machine-gun gag-writing.
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06/24/06
California Suite (1978)
50 %
Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 10 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Bill Cosby
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Less than successful, veering from poignant emotionalism to broad slapstick in sudden shifts.
10/03/07
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Means middle-class angst covered with a thin veneer of snappy one-liners and presented in the most anonymous directorial style imaginable.
10/03/07
Maggie Smith won a seond, Supporting Oscar for playing a hard-drinking, hard-talking actress who complains to her bisexual antique-dealer husband (Michael Caine), "Acting doesn't win Oscars. What I need is a dying father."
12/24/05
Dire: good actors playing the worst versions of one-dimensional Neil Simon joke machines.
09/16/05
California Suite offers audiences a fine blend of laughter and variety which is the spice of good comic cinema.
01/27/04
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