Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Summary:
Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker, in Hollywood to cowrite the 1937 feature A Star is Born with her sec... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jennifer Jason Leigh - (Dorothy Parker)
Matthew Broderick - (Charles MacArthur)
Campbell Scott - (Robert Benchley)
Peter Gallagher - (Alan Campbell)
Jennifer Beals - (Gertrude Benchley)
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Review:
Jennifer Jason Leigh turns in a fascinatingly odd performance in this depressing but lovingly crafted film about the acerbic Dorothy Parker. Tracing her life in flashbacks, the film wisely focuses on the halcyon days of the Algonquin Round Table, where New York's top writers drank, laughed, and traded virulently witty put-downs. In these sequ... Continue >>
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