California suite / Columbia Pictures presents a Ray Stark production ; a Herbert Ross film ; screenplay by Neil Simon ; produced by Ray Stark ; directed by Herbert Ross.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: ID6855SPHDVDLIT | Image EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Subtitle language: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai Publisher: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2007]Description: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0767881125
- 9780767881128
- 9786313922949
- 6313922948
- Neil Simon's California suite
- Director of photography, David M. Walsh ; editor, Michael A. Stevenson ; music, Claude Bolling.
- 1979 Oscar winner, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Maggie Smith)
- 1979 Golden Globe winner, Best Motion Picture Actress--Musical Comedy (Maggie Smith)
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY CALIFORN | Checked out | 05/08/2024 | 33111009956463 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) have rented a suite in a posh Beverly Hills hotel in order to have a discussion about who will get the custody of their child. In the next episode, Sidney Cochran and Diana Barrie (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith) are a hilarious pair of Hollywood stars who have rented the suite to await their appearance at the Academy Awards: it is a "date of convenience" which enables the sexually adventurous duo to conduct their other, more unconventional alliances out of the public eye. Drs. Willis Panama and Chauncy Gump (Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor) have brought their families to Beverly Hills for a vacation which takes on nightmarish tone. Finally, Marvin Michaels (Walter Matthau) tries frantically and unsuccessfully to explain the situation to his wife (Elaine May) when she catches him in flagrante delicto with a hooker. Actress Maggie Smith won an Academy Award as "Best Supporting Actress" for her role in this film, in which she plays the actress waiting to win . . . an Academy Award. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1 ratio); Dolby digital monaural.
English or dubbed French dialogue with subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai; closed captioned.
Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, Maggie Smith.
Director of photography, David M. Walsh ; editor, Michael A. Stevenson ; music, Claude Bolling.
Videodisc release of the 1978 motion picture.
Based on the play of the same title by Neil Simon.
MPAA rating: PG.
Five couples have come to the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles for diverse reasons, and they must all confront some rather amusing personal dilemmas.
1979 Oscar winner, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Maggie Smith)
1979 Golden Globe winner, Best Motion Picture Actress--Musical Comedy (Maggie Smith)