The crazy California hotel
| Movie | |
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| German title | The crazy California hotel |
| Original title | California Suite |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Herbert Ross |
| script | Neil Simon |
| production | Ray Stark |
| music | Claude Bolling |
| camera | David M. Walsh |
| cut | Michael A. Stevenson |
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California Suite is an American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross from the year 1978 . It is based on the Broadway -Stück California Suite (Original title: California Suite ) from the year 1976 by Neil Simon , who also wrote the screenplay.
action
Five couples come to a luxury hotel in Los Angeles and are confronted with different problems. The now divorced author couple Hannah and Bill Warren meet in a hotel room. The underage daughter they shared ran away from the emancipated publicist from New York and stayed with her father on the west coast for a flimsy reason. After an in-depth discussion, Hannah realizes that her daughter is better off with her birth father and begins the return journey.
Diana Barrie and her husband Sidney, a bisexual antique dealer, travel to the Academy Awards, at which the English actress is nominated for the Academy Award. Although the Shakespeare actress does not like the light-footed comedy in which she appears and is considered an outsider by bookmakers, she still hopes to win the film award. The Oscar goes to a younger colleague, however, and the neglected Diana finds solace in her husband, who previously devoted himself exclusively to the male sex.
Two African-American surgeons from Chicago, who stay at the hotel with their wives, compete with each other, which degenerates into numerous misfortunes, while the married Harry from the provinces treats himself the next day with a senselessly drunk beauty - which his brother has "given" him - found in his bed. Harry tries to hide the affair from his wife Millie, who has suddenly traveled from Philadelphia, but she discovers the sleeping girl.
background
The film was shot in the famous Beverly Hills Hotel . After a $ 150 million renovation, the hotel is now banned from filming to protect celebrity guests.
Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the Broadway play, the role was interpreted by the American Tammy Grimes .
The scenes at and in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion were filmed immediately before the 50th Academy Awards . During the bar scene you can see Richard Burton ( Equus - Blind Horses ) nominated there on the TV screen .
Reviews
The film service saw the crazy California Hotel in comparison to other Neil Simon films such as A Strange Couple , The Nerve Bundle or The Subtenant a bitter "disappointment" and chalked up the lack of a "dramaturgical bracket". The contemporary film critics saw in the first episode about Fonda and Alda "something of intelligent-sharp-tongued dialectic" flashed up, while Simon struck unusually vulgar tones in the second episode about Smith and Caine. The third episode about the doctor-married couple, on the other hand, is "buffoonery" and "disgruntled", since the "unsympathetic booby and intriguing role [...] of all people in the ensemble was assigned". The fourth episode was "raised in the oldest tabloid manner" and only gave actor Walter Matthau the opportunity to "pull off a worn out cliché". Director Herbert Ross lets "all cheap entertainment effects shoot the reins" and fails to "filmically resolve the theatrical structure of the dialogue-oriented piece".
Awards
- 1978: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress (Fonda; also for Coming Home and A Farm in Montana )
- 1979: Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Smith), two other nominations
- 1979: Golden Globe and Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (Smith)
- 1980: Evening Standard British Film Award for Smith for Best Actress
literature
- Neil Simon : California Suite. Comedy in four acts (original title: California Suite ). German by Gerty Agoston [not for sale stage manuscript]. Hunzinger Bühnenverlag and Stauffacher, Bad Homburg vd H. and Zurich circa 1980, 177 pp.
- Robert Grossbach : The crazy California Hotel (original title: California Suite ). German by Juscha Zoeller . Heyne, Munich 1979, 175 pages, ISBN 3-453-01119-8
Web links
- California Suite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Film review from RE in film-dienst 08/1979 (accessed via Munzinger archive)