California Suite

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 ...more

Whether adapting his own plays or writing directly for the screen, Neil Simon was one of the few writers who could draw an audience on his name alone. The typical Simon script combines humor, sentimentality, and pace in ways that Hollywood (and audiences) often found hard to resist. Directed by veteran Herbert Ross and featuring a large cast of big-name actors and immediately accessible character situations, California Suite was destined to be, and in fact was, a popular film. A derivative of ...more