California Suite

California Suite is a 1978 comedy drama set in a Beverly Hills hotel, where several sets of guests pass through the same suite over the course of a stay in Los Angeles. Among them are a divorced couple of writers, Hannah and Bill Warren, whose teenage daughter has left her mother in New York and turned up at her father's door on the West Coast; a husband caught by his wife during a dalliance; and an actress attending the Academy Awards with a man who is not quite what the arrangement appears to be. Other couples arrive from different backgrounds, and their weekend disputes and encounters unfold alongside these stories.

The film was directed by Herbert Ross, his seventh feature in a run of thirteen, coming after The Goodbye Girl and before Footloose. Neil Simon wrote the screenplay, and Ray Stark produced for Columbia Pictures and Rastar Productions. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda play the divorced writers, Maggie Smith and Michael Caine play the actress and her companion, and Walter Matthau and Elaine May appear as another married pair. Around sixty performers are credited.

Released in March 1978, the film took about 42 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb its critics' rating stands at 5.3 out of 10 from 26 reviews, while on TMDB viewers give it 5.9 out of 10 from 127 votes, so the two measures sit fairly close together.