Jane Fonda

Alan Alda

Maggie Smith

Michael Caine

Walter Matthau

Elaine May

Herb Edelman

Denise Galik

Richard Pryor

Bill Cosby

Gloria Gifford

Sheila Frazier

David Sheehan

Michael Boyle

Len Lawson

Gino Ardito

Jerrold Ziman

Clint Young

David Matthau

James Espinoza

Buddy Douglas

Armand Cerami

Joseph Morena

Brian Cummings

Bill Kux

Zora Margolis

Rita Gomez

Tina Menard

Lupe Ontiveros

Bert May

Eddie Villery

Army Archerd

Paolo Frediani

Judith Hannah Brown

Gary Hendrix

Christopher Pennock

Jack Scanlan

Bill Steinmetz

Dana Plato

Nora Boland

David Rini

John Hawker

Frank Conn

Colleen Drape

Linda Ewen

Kelly Harmon

Tawny Moyer

Leslie Pagett

Vicki Stephens

Nan Wylder

Benjie Bancroft

James Coburn

Laura Gile

Bob Harks

Paul LeClair

Norman Palmer

Leoda Richards

Stan Rodarte

Arthur Tovey

Catherine Wilkinson

Herbert Ross

Neil Simon

Claude Bolling

Ann Roth

Seth Banks

Charlie Picerni

Bob Herron

Regina Gruss

Shirlee Strahm

Ray Stark

Ronald L. Schwary

David M. Walsh

Michael A. Stevenson

Jennifer Shull

Albert Brenner

Marvin March

Patricia Norris

Bernadine M. Anderson

Charles H. Schram

Ruby Ford

Kaye Pownall

Evelyn Preece

Drew Struzan

Comedy

Drama

Romance

California Suite

Columbia Pictures

Rastar Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Neil Simon isn't really at his best with this rather hit or miss telling of four families who happen to stay at the world famous Beverly Hills Hotel. The divorced "Warren" family - Jane Fonda & Alan Alda are squabbling over the future of their teenage daughter. She has custody but the youngster wants to spend more time with her father and that's causing no end of self doubt and frustration with her mother. "Marvin" (Walter Matthau) comes on a day ahead of his wife "Millie" (Elaine May) and manages to find himself with an hooker who has no idea when it's a good time to wake up and leave. Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby are brothers travelling with their wives who find an hotel mishap leaves one couple in luxury, the other in a glorified bedsit. Finally, the best of the script falls to Maggie Smith and Michael Caine as the married couple in town because she's been nominated for an Oscar. Last minutes nerves, wobbles, loads of gin and a constant search for validation from her loving but not the most gushing of husbands provides us with much of the best sarcasm and wit contained here, and those scenes - sparing after the half way mark give us most of what's worth watching here. The Pryor/Cosby and Matthau/May scenarios are more contrived and don't work nearly so well and the initial melodrama really only offers Fonda a chance to deliver some lengthy monologues of, occasionally pithy, dialogue. It does poke fun at some of the more facile elements of life and fame, but the episodic nature of the storytelling I found to be a little disjointed and not really that funny.

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