California Suite Page #8

Synopsis: Four totally different and separate stories of guests staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Maggie Smith and Michael Caine come from England to attend the Oscars; Jane Fonda comes from New York, Alan Alda is her ex who lives in California; in the slapstick part Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and their wives come to the hotel to relax and play tennis, only to find there is only one room vacant; in the fourth segment Walter Matthau arrives a day before his wife for his nephew's Bar Mitzvah while his brother (Herb Edelman) sends a prostitute to his room.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Herbert Ross
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG
Year:
1978
103 min
1,744 Views


Sorry I didn't win

that award tonight.

Your dance card would have

been filled for a year.

We haven't done

too badly together.

I'm kinder to you

than your average stuntman.

There was a time, Sidney,

when I thought you'd

give it all up for me.

I love you, my angel,

more than any woman

I've ever known.

Christ, I can't get a break.

I do the best I can.

Thank you.

You can't say we don't

have fun together.

Oh, hell, no. The dinner

conversations alone

are worth the trouble.

Sorry.

Sorry, Sidney.

It wasn't the kiss.

It's my life.

Tired? Come on, then.

Losing Oscars always

does that to me.

I'll get up first thing

and order your eggs Benedict.

You do take care of me, Sidney.

I'll say that.

And good help is

so hard to find these days.

You scratch my back,

and I'll scratch yours.

It's been an evening

of ups and downs, hasn't it?

Mm-hmm.

Care to continue the motion?

Tacky.

You're getting tacky, my angel.

I love you, Sidney.

Don't close your eyes, Sidney.

I always close my eyes.

Not tonight.

Look at me tonight.

Let it be me... tonight.

- Long!

- What?

Long. The serve was long.

You're half asleep. How can

you see the serve was long?

I saw it with the half

that was awake.

Second serve.

I hope he knows something

about orthopedics,

'cause he won't be able

to walk after this.

Long! Double fault.

Love-fifteen.

What? What?

How can you call that ball long?

It's simple.

Like this:
Looooong!

Now serve the ball.

Serve the ball, Willis. We only

have the court for an hour.

After I serve you head

for the clubhouse,

'cause there's

not gonna be any survivors.

- "Long."

- You ready?

Oh! Ooh!

Get a towel, somebody, quick!

- God, Willis! Jesus!

- I'm sorry.

- If it hurts, massage it.

- Honey, I'm sorry.

- It's ok. It's ok.

- You all right?

- Yeah, I'm ok.

- All right. Go! Second serve!

Let them have the room tonight,

please. It's safer.

Never again.

Never again. Never.

Never.

Oh, god.

What are you doing here?

I thought you left.

Hey, hey. Come on.

You can't stay here.

Wake up.

Ohhh.

Oh.

10:
45?

Jesus Christ, it's 10:45.

Hey, wake up. Wake up.

Don't you understand?

It's 10:
45.

Crazy. I must be crazy.

Hello? Hello, operator,

what time is it?

10:
45?

Why didn't you call me?

I left a wake-up call

for 8:
00 this morning!

I did! I didn't?

Well, you should have

called me anyway.

Hey, come on. Get up.

My wife could walk in

any minute.

Hey!

What's wrong with you?

You deaf or something?

You all right?

What'd you do?

You drank an entire bottle of

Tequila with my wife coming in?

Are you crazy?

Oh, god.

Oh, listen, listen.

You gotta sleep this off

someplace else.

This is a bad place

to sleep this off.

Water.

How 'bout some nice water?

Here, lady.

Sip a little water.

Drink, sweetheart, for my sake.

Open your lips, you crazy broad!

Don't panic. Panic is

the quickest way to divorce.

Don't panic.

Mustn't panic!

Move. Move!

Please, god, make her move.

I'll never be a bad person

again, I promise.

All right. We're going to get

you dressed and down into a cab.

That's it.

I'm really sorry this happened.

It was a wonderful evening,

whoever the hell you are.

Come on, darling.

Push.

Get your leg in there.

Get your foot in there and push.

Come on! Come on.

Push, darling, push.

Get your feet...

Feet in here.

Come on!

Damn it, push!

Legs up, and push.

Get the foot in. Come on.

Come on!

You're not gonna help me, right?

Think, think, Marvin.

Think, think.

Change rooms.

Let some other idiot

get stuck with her.

Hello, operator?

Get me the front desk, please.

This is an emergency.

Listen, I have two wonderful

children who need a father.

Don't do this to me.

Hello, this is Mr. Michaels

in suite 203 and 4.

Listen, I'm very

uncomfortable in this room.

The bed is very bad for my back.

When I woke up this morning,

I thought my life was over.

Well, we don't have

another vacancy

until 2:
00

this afternoon.

One moment, Mr. Michaels.

May I help you, ma'am?

Marvin Michaels.

I'm Mrs. Marvin Michaels.

He's on the phone now.

Suite 203.

Thank you. Would you

tell him I'll be right up?

Mr. Michaels, as I was saying,

we can have a...

Very nice suite for you

sometime after 2:00.

I can't wait until 2:00.

My wife is coming in

from the east any minute now,

and I know she's not gonna be

happy once she sees this room.

Who's here? My wife?

My wife is here?

You sent my wife up here

without calling me?

What the hell kind of a cheap

hotel are you running here?

Well, send somebody to stop her

before she sees this bed!

It could ruin

her entire vacation!

I could jump. With two broken legs,

she'd never be angry with me.

Oh, my god.

- Marvin?

- Oh, god.

Oh, my god.

Marvin? Hello?

Marvin?

Open the door!

Just a minute!

What are you doing,

rearranging the furniture?

Open the door!

I'm going into the other room.

Once I'm in there,

lock this door

and don't open it for anyone!

What?

I cannot hear you.

Who is it?

- It's me, Millie.

- Millie?

- Yes!

- Just a minute!

Millie?

Hello, Marvin.

Thank you for opening the door.

Hello, sweetie.

Why didn't you pick me up

at the airport?

- Why?

- Yes, why?

Why.

I've been sick all day.

I just threw up in the other room.

Don't go in there.

The doctor left

about ten minutes ago.

I have acute gastroenteritis.

- But it's nothing to worry about.

- Oh, my god!

- When did this happen?

- About 2:
00 in the morning.

You look terrible.

Why don't you get into bed,

honey. You'll feel better.

- Come on, you'll be more...

- Oh, no! Oh, no!

I'm not supposed to lie down.

It makes me nauseous.

- Honey... ok.

- It just makes me nauseous.

Oh, you're so sweet.

I feel much better in this room.

It's so much cheerier.

I think you better lie down.

- I need some compazine spansules.

- What's that?

Aah! It stops nausea.

- Compazine spansules.

- Did you call downstairs to the drugstore?

They don't carry it.

It has codeine in it.

The nearest place that has it is a

drugstore on Santa Monica blvd.

But they don't deliver. I'm gonna

have to go down there myself.

All right, I'll go.

I'll go.

- Where's the prescription?

- What prescription?

Didn't the doctor give

you a prescription?

You can't get codeine

without a prescription.

Yes, you can.

In California, you can.

Compazine spansules.

Well, then... I have

to go to the bathroom.

- Now?

- Well, I haven't gone in four hours.

I told you, I just threw up

in there, all over.

Please, give me the opportunity

of making it presentable first.

It means a great deal to me.

We've been married for 15 years.

You've never cleaned up

a bathroom before.

Well, I think it's

high time I started.

Don't you?

Please.

I'll be right out.

- Sit down for a minute.

- No, please, no...

Here, have a piece of fruit.

Go to the bathroom

if you're gonna clean up, ok?

I'm sorry, miss.

I'm gonna have to leave

you out in the hall.

Don't worry about it.

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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway." During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. more…

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