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Plaza Suite

  • 1971
  • PG-13
  • 1h 54m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
3K
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Plaza Suite (1971)
Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.
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Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

  • Director
    • Arthur Hiller
  • Writer
    • Neil Simon
  • Stars
    • Walter Matthau
    • Maureen Stapleton
    • Barbara Harris
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Arthur Hiller
    • Writer
      • Neil Simon
    • Stars
      • Walter Matthau
      • Maureen Stapleton
      • Barbara Harris
    • 30User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau
    • Roy Hubley…
    Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton
    • Karen Nash
    Barbara Harris
    Barbara Harris
    • Muriel Tate
    Lee Grant
    Lee Grant
    • Norma Hubley
    Louise Sorel
    Louise Sorel
    • Jean McCormack
    Dan Ferrone
    Dan Ferrone
    • Bellboy
    José Ocasio
    • Room Service Waiter
    • (as Jose Ocasio)
    Thomas Carey
    • Borden Eisler
    Jenny Sullivan
    Jenny Sullivan
    • Mimsey Hubley
    Augusta Dabney
    Augusta Dabney
    • Mrs. Eisler
    Alan North
    Alan North
    • Mr. Eisler
    Frank Albanese
    Frank Albanese
    • Parking Lot Attendant
    • (uncredited)
    Raina Barrett
    Raina Barrett
    • Girl in Lobby
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Beers
    • Man in Hotel
    • (uncredited)
    James Bryson
    • Doorman
    • (uncredited)
    Jordan Charney
    Jordan Charney
    • Jesse's Aide
    • (uncredited)
    Gordon B. Clarke
    Gordon B. Clarke
    • Hotel Manager
    • (uncredited)
    Alan DeWitt
    • Man in Lobby
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Arthur Hiller
    • Writer
      • Neil Simon
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    User reviews30

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    Richard Album

    Dialogue heaven...

    The old cliche applies to this brilliantly acted and wonderfully scripted film; they don't make them like this any more. The comedy, the intensity, the emotion is all in the dialogue and in the performances of the leading ladies and of course, that of Walter Matthau as the three lead male characters.

    The dialogue crackles from start to finish. I don't think a script like this would ever get the green light in Hollywood today. Too much talk, not enough drama, nothing that really happens. In many ways it's more like a French film.

    Walter Matthau is from that wonderful generation of fifties and sixties comic actors who could be over-the-top without overracting (Peter Sellers, Phil Silvers, Tony Hancock etc.). He manages to do this whilst never losing his grip on his characters and always managing to surprise with his subtle facial expressions and the comic timing of his movement.

    Great performances and a great film.
    5moonspinner55

    Hit play comes to the screen without flair or style...and with a first act that leaves a sour tone for the rest of the picture

    Neil Simon's Broadway success, brought to the screen in a dung-colored transfer. Walter Matthau plays three different men who check into suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City at different times. In the opener, he's a neglectful husband to needy, chatty Maureen Stapleton; in the second, he's a movie producer from Hollywood who phones up old flame Barbara Harris for a tryst; and for the finale, Matthau is married to Lee Grant and suffering the wedding catastrophe blues after his daughter gets cold feet before her ceremony. Simon, despite having penned the adaptation himself, was reportedly not happy with the picture; George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton had played all the central parts on stage, though Simon felt Matthau's take on the three male characters didn't work on film. He was partly right (Matthau is most ill-at-ease in the second episode), but the main problem with the film is the first installment. Portraying a long-suffering married couple on the brink of imploding, Matthau and Stapleton are busily beleaguered and convincingly antagonistic...it might have helped if they were funnier. Matthau's incarnation of the callous (and cheating) hubby is, unfortunately, so unfeeling towards his spouse--in a story which is not satisfactorily resolved--that it leaves a sour residue from which the rest of "Plaza Suite" never recovers. Some of the flip talk is cheeky and amusing, Lee Grant gets some colorful bits of business, but this is still a depressing experience. The Plaza Hotel must have been infuriated with the art direction: this picture makes the posh resort look like a Burger King. ** from ****
    8kimbpaul

    Peeping Neil

    I swear, Neil Simon was window peeping on my life. At least, in the 1st vignette. I had that conversation, and I had/have that memory. Amazing. Simon is a master. I saw this the 1st at a much younger age and couldn't relate but I can now. I haven't been the wedding character yet, but it's coming. I've met the guy in vignette #2, but I'm smarter and left his dumba$$ at the bar.
    7isabellacatgirl

    Plaza Suite 1971

    Walter Matthau plays 3 different characters,each convincing it's a different person. My favorite segment is the one with Barbara Harris though. Great chemistry those two had in that scene! Maureen Stapleton was kinda funny too,but by the third act I got bored and turned it off. Maybe I'll finish it soon.
    6kyle_furr

    not very funny

    Not very funny or interesting. All three of the skits are pretty boring. I could hardly keep myself awake during the second one, I only watched the third one because i heard it was the best of the three, It was just as bad as the first two. Walter Matthau is a fine actor but not in here.

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    • Trivia
      The stage version of "Plaza Suite" by Neil Simon originally had four acts instead of three. The act that was cut was entitled "Visitor from Toledo", and was intended to open the play. Simon once described the act to the Newark Evening News as being "...about a man who came to New York from out of town and lost his luggage. He got there in the middle of a transit strike. It was snowing. So after he had checked into the Plaza [Hotel] he had this monologue. We put Plaza Suite into rehearsal, and after about the fifth day [director] Mike Nichols said, 'We just have too much show here. If we include that monologue, the curtain will be coming down at midnight.'" Simon later re-worked and expanded that story into the film Escapade à New York (1970).
    • Goofs
      In Act 3, Norma Hubley's hat gets soaking wet when she sticks her head out of the window. In the next shot it is dry again.
    • Quotes

      Norma Hubley: Promise me you won't get hysterical.

      Roy Hubley: Why? What'd you do?

      Norma Hubley: Just promise me.

      Roy Hubley: Alright, I promise. what'd you do?

      Norma Hubley: I broke my diamond ring.

      Roy Hubley: Your good diamond ring?

      Norma Hubley: How many do I have?

    • Connections
      Featured in Paramount Presents (1974)
    • Soundtracks
      Tangerine
      Written by Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger

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    • Release date
      • May 12, 1971 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Apartman hotela Plaza
    • Filming locations
      • Plaza Hotel - 750 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,669,403
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 54m(114 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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