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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1971 DVD Release: 11/25/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Romantic Comedy

It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising Plaza Suite, with a different leading lady in each. First we see Matthau as the husband of Maureen Stapleton, nostalgically returning to the same hotel suite where they'd spent their honeymoon 24 years earlier. Times have changed, however, and the twosome spend more timing sniping at one another than pitching woo. The second vignette casts Matthau as an effusive movie producer (lavish toupee and all) who hopes to seduce his old sweetheart Barbara Harris. The third and best sequence finds Matthau and Lee Grant playing the parents of a bride who steadfastly refuses to leave her locked room to attend her own wedding. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Walter Matthau - Jesse
Walter Matthau - Roy
Walter Matthau - Sam
Maureen Stapleton - Karen Nash
Barbara Harris - Muriel Tate
Lee Grant - Norman Hubley
Louise Sorel - Miss McCormack