X
- 1971
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
- 1971
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
Summary Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: Neil Simon
- 1971
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
- 1971
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
Plaza Suite
54
User Score
Available after 4 ratings
tbd
Where to Watch
Summary Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.
Directed By: Arthur Hiller
Written By: Neil Simon
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Each of the femme stars is given much screen time and the result not only is excellent spotlighting of their own talents, but also an adroit restraint on Matthau’s presence.
All three skits are only mildly illuminating front-line communiqués from the sexual wars. But when Simon is writing them and Matthau reading them, substance seems almost beside the point.
Some good gags and expert comedy performances.
Schizophrenic performance from the estimable Walter Matthau, playing the central characters of three Neil Simon stories set in New York's Plaza Hotel. His barely contained rage as the dad who finds his daughter refusing to come out of the bathroom on her wedding day is particularly good, but the jokes are thinly rationed. [19 Nov 2005, p.53]
In the case of Plaza Suite, I don't have the feeling that anything much has been lost, but rather that nothing much was ever there.
Plaza Suite is a strenuous bore, far less amusing than the play, but no less empty and heartless in its insistence on creating grotesques for easy laughs and then forcing them to feel sorry for even easier pathos. [20 May 1971, p.61]
User Reviews
There are no user reviews yet. Be the first to add a review.
