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Suite Dreams centers around the lives of two of these characters, one divorced and the other happily married until he checks into the hotel. Hannah Warren (Laurel Pescosolido) is a 30-ish journalist from New York who is in the midst of a fight with her ex-husband Billy (Brian McCabe), a hot-shot screenwriter. They each want custody of their 17-year-old daughter Jenny (Jennifer Harris), but she has other ideas about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Oughta: Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters. Best of the bunch, and a fitting representative of Hannah's excellent and otherwise unrecognized quintet of supporting actresses...
Gonna: Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters. Because he was in five million other movies, including Mona Lisa, and he gave the same performance in each, and nobody knows exactly why they like this man, but they want to validate their insecurities, so they'll give him the Oscar...
Glowacki's text, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, benefits from lively staging by Arthur Penn and sensitive performances. Ron Silver bearishly evokes the descent from self-doubt to despair. Dianne Wiest (an Oscar nominee for her role in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters) bubbles with fantasies of redemption: she stuffs a pillow under her clothes and says she will have a child; she tells an enigmatic joke and vows to become a stand-up comic. Each gently deflects the other in a tender marriage, unharrowed by grief...
Furthermore, the film provides in Barbara Hershey a wonderful example of what happens when you provide a mediocre actor with a mediocre script. While she seemed perfectly comfortable as Hannah's pseudo-intellectual sister in Woody Allen's expertly crafted comedy of last year, she appears cryogenically de-animated here, in a role as lifeless as a late-season Nets game...