Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

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Rating: R

Running Time: 124 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Robards, Martha Plimpton, Tom McGowan

director: Alan Rudolph

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

The story of Dorothy Parker and the famed Algonquin roundtable; a gathering of writers, actors and assorted folk at the New York hotel in the late 1920s and 30s.

February 27, 2001

Alan Rudolph has a sneaky, clever notion in co-writing and directing this look at the intimidating wits, led by writer, poet and critic Dorothy Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who gathered daily for lunch and literate bitching at the round table in Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel during the 1920s. Rudolph reminds us how young and vulnerable they were before legend set them in stone. The scenes around the table with a group that includes humorist Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott), author Edna Ferber…