Alan Alda,
Michael Caine,
Bill Cosby,
Jane Fonda,
Walter Matthau
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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 adapte... read more
DVD Release Date: January 2, 2002
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Flixster Reviews (106)
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February 10, 2012Neil Simon don't do a very good work, like another films written by he. The first hour, California Suite is nothing poignant. After, the movie get better, but the audience in that point don't want continue to watch.
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January 6, 2011Another all-star fiasco. This movie is supposed to be funny and dramatic, but it's in fact very boring and has very little humor. There are a couple of really funny scenes, but most of the time it isn't funny at all. The only real reason to watch this is to see all the famous ... read more
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January 16, 2007The best latter duo (Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby) getting the worst break, however, as their seg is chopped up, spread around and generally given short shrift in this film.
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January 9, 2007Okayish Neil Simon comedy with a strong cast (the story involving Michael Caine and Maggie Smith is particularly witty) but I couldn't shake the feeling I was watching a landlocked episode of The Love Boat...
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March 29, 2008Maggie Smith was wonderful in this film. I loved the Michael Caine character as well...one of Neil Simon's best.
Critic Reviews
October 3, 2007
Variety Staff, Variety
October 3, 2007
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Means middle-class angst covered with a thin veneer of snappy one-liners and presented in the most anonymous directorial style imaginable. Full Review
June 4, 2009
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The West Coast version of Plaza Suite. Full Review
June 24, 2006
Time Out
Quick and varied comedy, highly suited to Neil Simon's machine-gun gag-writing. Full Review
December 24, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
For one of the acts in Neil Simon's stale anthology, Maggie Smith won a Supporting Oscar for playing a hard-drinking actress who complains to her bisexual husband (Michael Caine) that "Acting doesn't ... Full Review
September 16, 2005
Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
Dire: good actors playing the worst versions of one-dimensional Neil Simon joke machines.
February 26, 2005
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
sharp script and acting
July 8, 2004
Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)
Offensive, stupid, and embarrassing.
January 27, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
California Suite offers audiences a fine blend of laughter and variety which is the spice of good comic cinema. Full Review
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