Plaza Suite

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Plaza Suite

PG-13

1971

1h 55m

Comedy

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In a film based on Neil Simon's hit play, Walter Matthau portrays three unconnected roles. Sam Nash reluctantly joins his wife, Karen (Maureen Stapleton), in the suite where they spent their honeymoon, hoping to revive their flagging marriage. Then Jesse Kiplinger, an aging movie producer, is determined to seduce his old flame, Muriel (Barbara Harris). Finally, Matthau is beleaguered father Roy Hubley who, with his wife, Norma (Lee Grant), struggles to get their daughter to her own wedding.

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Critics Consensus

Featuring three Walter Matthau performances for the price of one, Plaza Suite is an uneven but overall entertaining Neil Simon adaptation.

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Penelope Gilliatt

New Yorker

It is a minor agony: humorless, loveless, calorie-scared.

Jan 29, 2024

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Even though Mr. Matthau is one of America's finest comic actors, I found most of his work here filled with desperation, quite like the rather ratty hairpieces he wears to differentiate the three characters he plays.

Aug 29, 2021

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

It may be there could never be too much Matthau. With "Plaza Suite" and "A New Leaf" he has reestablished himself as one of our funniest actors, proving that role selection is a crucial element in an actor's competence.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 29, 2021

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Tom Hutchinson

Radio Times

You get three Walter Matthaus for the price of one here, as he cynically bulldozes his way through three acts of Neil Simon's play about the goings-on in a swanky hotel suite.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 29, 2021

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John Huddy

Miami Herald

"Plaza Suite" goes sour immediately and even talented performers the caliber of Walter Matthau, Barbara Harris, and Lee Grant can't quite salvage the film treatment of Neil Simon's three-act hit play.

Aug 29, 2021

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Stanley Eichelbaum

San Francisco Examiner

I found most of the film flatly uninspired and too mechanically locked into the wordy comedy that worked so much better on the stage.

Aug 29, 2021

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william k

I saw this movie for the first time at the Radio City Music Hall in NYC in 1971, complete with a Rockettes performance before the screening, days before we emigrated to Germany via ship. At the time I thought this comedy was hilarious and entertaining, However, years later, I saw it again, and the comedy was rather flat, the episodes continuously less funny and relying more and more on rough slapstick moments.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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steve d

None of the stories worked for me.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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deke p

Vaguely recall seeing it in theater when it came out, i think. Not too memorable for me. But it and Neil Simon was widely heralded.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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ashley h

Plaza Suite is a disappointing film. It is about relationship issues are presented and taking place in suite 719 of the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Walter Matthau and Maureen Stapleton give horrible performances. The screenplay is badly written. Arthur Hiller did a terrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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gr8 cast makes this one go

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Based on Neil Simon's hit broadway play with three vignettes, each starring Matthau. The first is about a married couple with the husband admitting to a n extra marital relationship on the day of their anniversary. The second is about a producer seducing a young woman. The third is about the mother and father of a bride-to-be who locked herself in the bathroom moments before the wedding. All these vignettes take place at a Plaza suite. This is really a great showcase for Matthau's charisma and comedic personality. He really gets a chance to shine. However, Plaza Suite is not so well translated to the big screen here, in a stagey and overall underwhelming cinematic version that nevertheless does not undermine the charm and wit of the original material by Neil Simon. Nevertheless, it's not quite as memorable as it should have been, and for that reason it comes across as rather disappointing.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Arthur Hiller

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Walter Matthau

Roy Hubley

Maureen Stapleton

Karen Nash

Barbara Harris

Muriel Tate

Jose Ocasio

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Dan Ferrone

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Synopsis

In a film based on Neil Simon's hit play, Walter Matthau portrays three unconnected roles. Sam Nash reluctantly joins his wife, Karen (Maureen Stapleton), in the suite where they spent their honeymoon, hoping to revive their flagging marriage. Then Jesse Kiplinger, an aging movie producer, is determined to seduce his old flame, Muriel (Barbara Harris). Finally, Matthau is beleaguered father Roy Hubley who, with his wife, Norma (Lee Grant), struggles to get their daughter to her own wedding.

Director: Arthur Hiller
Producer: Howard W. Koch
Screenwriter: Neil Simon
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2011
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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