Mortimer finally grasps that his brother Jonathan has returned after being reminded of a childhood orture: "When you were tied to the bedpost, the needles under your fingernails.The 1932 and 1945 films pre-dated wo later films that also centered around hotel settings, both from playwright Neil Simon:Arthur Hiller""sPlaza Suite (1971)Herbert Ross""California Suite (1978)More recently, Wes Anderson""sThe Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)also made a grand hotel setting (in the fictional European principality of Zubrowka) a character in itself.]Plot SynopsisThe Title Credits - Groupie Annie Savoy""s "The Church of Baseball" Monologue:A series of still black and white photos from baseball""s past (including images of Pete Rose, Babe Ruth, and others) provided he backdrop for the title credits, with accompaniment by cultured and literate baseball and sports groupie Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a junior-college English teacher and sexually-seductive baseball groupie.Krall powered up and activated the Abronath bio-weapon disk and tossed it into the regulator chamber, causing its black liquid cloud to spread out."Freddy described how his power and continually-revived, immortal life came from "the dream people.The ones that gave me this job.In dreams, I am forever." Doc ripped off a piece of Freddy""s striped sweater, and then his wristwatch alarm went off.Doc awoke up in the real-world in his office where his alarm clock was loudly beeping, and where he was hooked up with electrodes to a computerized brain-sensor machine.