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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 bu…
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California Suite
“The best two-hour vacation in town!”
58%
Movie
1h 43m
AI Analysis
California Suite (1978) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of California Suite (1978) — a movie tagged as Comedy, Drama, and Romance with funny and emotional moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling (~103 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate California Suite 58% (123 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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58%
from 123 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1978-03-19
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- TMDB rating
- 5.8
- TMDB ID
- 26686
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What is California Suite about?
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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The official runtime for California Suite is approximately 103 minutes.
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Cast
Jane Fonda
Hannah Warren
Alan Alda
Bill Warren
Maggie Smith
Diana Barrie
Michael Caine
Sidney Cochran
Walter Matthau
Marvin Michaels
Elaine May
Millie Michaels
Herb Edelman
Harry Michaels
Denise Galik
Bunny
Richard Pryor
Dr. Chauncey Gump
Bill Cosby
Dr. Willis Panama
Gloria Gifford
Lola Gump
Sheila Frazier
Bettina Panama
David Sheehan
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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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