Plaza Suite (1971)
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50% of critics liked it
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60% of users liked it
(844 ratings)
It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising… More It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising Plaza Suite, with a different leading lady in each. First we see Matthau as the husband of Maureen Stapleton, nostalgically returning to the same hotel suite where they'd spent their honeymoon 24 years earlier. Times have changed, however, and the twosome spend more timing sniping at one another than pitching woo. The second vignette casts Matthau as an effusive movie producer (lavish toupee and all) who hopes to seduce his old sweetheart Barbara Harris. The third and best sequence finds Matthau and Lee Grant playing the parents of a bride who steadfastly refuses to leave her locked room to attend her own wedding. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Arthur Hiller
- Written By
- Neil Simon
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- May 12, 1971 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
Mediocre Neil Simon-based flick with some frantic work by Matthau and Co.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
the best way to take Neil Simon material: In short, manageable chunks
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Cast
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Walter Matthau
as Jesse, Roy, Sam
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Maureen Stapleton
as Karen Nash
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Barbara Harris
as Muriel Tate
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Lee Grant
as Norman Hubley
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Louise Sorel
as Miss McCormack
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Tom Carey
as Borden Eisler
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Augusta Dabney
as Mrs. Eisler
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Dan Ferrone
as Bellhop
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Alan North
as Mr. Eisler
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Jose Ocasio
as Waiter
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Jenny Sullivan
as Mimsey Hubley
