| 词条 | California Suite (film) |
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| name = California Suite | image = CaliforniaSuitePoster.jpg | image_size = | caption = Theatrical release poster by Nick Cardy | director = Herbert Ross | producer = Ray Stark | writer = Neil Simon | based_on = {{basedon|California Suite|Neil Simon}} | starring = Alan Alda Michael Caine Bill Cosby Jane Fonda Walter Matthau Elaine May Richard Pryor Maggie Smith | music = Claude Bolling | cinematography = David M. Walsh | editing = Michael A. Stevenson | studio = Rastar | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = {{Film date|1978|12|22}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = $42 million[1] }} California Suite is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his play of the same name. Similar to his earlier Plaza Suite, the film focuses on the dilemmas of guests staying in a suite in a luxury hotel. Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film. PlotIn Visitors from New York, Hannah Warren (Jane Fonda) is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny (played by Dana Plato) after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father Bill (Alan Alda). The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl. In Visitors from London, Diana Barrie (Maggie Smith) is a British actress and a first-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress in an independent British film, an honour that could jumpstart her faltering career, although she knows she doesn't have a chance of winning. She is in deep denial about the true nature of her marriage of convenience to Sidney Cochran (Michael Caine), a once-closeted gay antique dealer who has become increasingly indiscreet about his sexuality. As she prepares for her moment in the spotlight, her mood fluctuates from hope to panic to despair. In Visitors from Philadelphia, conservative middle-aged businessman Marvin Michaels (Walter Matthau) awakens to discover a prostitute (Denise Galik) named Bunny - an unexpected gift from his brother Harry (Herb Edelman) - unconscious in his bed. With his wife Millie (Elaine May) on her way up to the suite, he must find a way to conceal all traces of his uncharacteristic indiscretion. In Visitors from Chicago, Dr. Chauncey Gump (Richard Pryor) and his wife Lola (Gloria Gifford) and Dr. Willis Panama (Bill Cosby) and his wife Bettina (Sheila Frazier) are taking a much-needed vacation together. Things begin to unravel quickly when everything seems to go wrong and the two men decide to settle their differences by engaging in a very competitive mixed doubles tennis match. Cast
ProductionThe film was shot on location at The Beverly Hills Hotel, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Los Angeles Music Center, and along Rodeo Drive. Diana and Sidney's arrival at the Academy Awards was actually shot during the arrivals for the 50th Academy Awards in April, 1978. This may explain the muted response from a real-life crowd unfamiliar with the names "Diana Barrie" and "Sidney Cochran." The California-themed paintings seen in the opening credits are by pop artist David Hockney. While the play featured two actors and two actresses each playing several roles, the film features a different actor for each role. Critical receptionVincent Canby of The New York Times called California Suite "the most agreeably realised Simon film in years" and added, "Here is Mr. Simon in top form, under the direction of Herbert Ross, one of the few directors . . . who can cope with the particular demands of material that simultaneously means to be touching and so nonstop clever one sometimes wants to gag him. It all works in California Suite, not only because the material is superior Simon, but also because the writer and the director have assembled a dream cast."[2]Variety observed, "Neil Simon and Herbert Ross have gambled in radically altering the successful format of California Suite as it appeared on stage. Instead of four separate playlets, there is now one semi-cohesive narrative revolving around visitors to the Beverly Hills Hotel . . . The technique is less than successful, veering from poignant emotionalism to broad slapstick in sudden shifts."[3]Time Out New York described the film as "quick and varied comedy, highly suited to Neil Simon's machine-gun gag-writing" and added, "Fonda provides the film with its centre, giving another performance of unnerving sureness. Also on the credit side is a bedroom farce of epic proportions from Matthau and May. The other vignettes are a bit glum."[4]Channel 4 said, "It's an expertly crafted slick movie that sets up each of its coconuts and knocks them over with a sure eye, but ultimately it's emotional sushi rather than satisfying catharsis."[5]Awards and nominationsFor her portrayal of an Oscar nominee, Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, and tied with Ellen Burstyn in Same Time, Next Year for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role but lost to Jane Fonda in The China Syndrome. Neil Simon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to Oliver Stone for Midnight Express. He also was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Albert Brenner and Marvin March were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction but lost to Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, and George Gaines for Heaven Can Wait. Jane Fonda received the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in honour of her performances in California Suite, Comes a Horseman, and Coming Home. DVD releaseThe film was released on DVD on Region 1 DVD on January 2, 2002. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks in English and French and subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai. See also
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1978/0CSTE.php|publisher=The Numbers|title=California Suite, Box Office Information|accessdate=June 25, 2012}} 2. ^[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173AB52CA14A4CC2B779948C6896 The New York Times review] 3. ^Variety review 4. ^[https://archive.today/20130204152941/http://www.timeout.com/film/newyork/reviews/68735/California_Suite.html Time Out New York review] 5. ^Channel 4 review External links
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