California Suite

Director: Herbert Ross
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenwriter: Neil Simon
Stars: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Herb Edelman, Denise Galik-Furey, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Gloria Gifford, Sheila Frazier
MPAA Rating: PG

This Neil Simon tragicomedy features four groups of people who converge on a L.A. hotel on the eve of the Oscars. Three stories are pretty funny -- especially Walter Matthau's unfaithful husband to Elaine May, but it's the Fonda-Alda weep-fest that opens the movie that almost ruins the show completely. Still, it's salvagable, something of a Four Rooms... still not done quite right.