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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alan Rudolph released in USA on 23 november 1994 with Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 november 1994
Length 2h6
Directed by Alan Rudolph
OriginUSA
Themes Films about writers
Rating63%
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 American film scripted by screenwriter/director Alan Rudolph and former Washington Star reporter Randy Sue Coburn. Directed by Rudolph, it starred Jennifer Jason Leigh as the writer Dorothy Parker and depicted the members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors and critics who met almost every weekday from 1919 to 1929, at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel.
The film was an Official Selection at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. The film was a critical but not a commercial success.
Peter Benchley, who played editor Frank Crowninshield, was the grandson of Robert Benchley, the humorist who once worked underneath Crowninshield. Actor Wallace Shawn was the son of William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker.
Synopsis
La vie de la poétesse Dorothy Parker dans le New York des années 1920 dans le cercle littéraire de la table ronde de l'Algonquin.Actors
Jennifer Jason Leigh
(Dorothy Parker)
Campbell Scott
(Robert Benchley)
Matthew Broderick
(Charles MacArthur)
Peter Gallagher
(Alan Campbell)
Sam Robards
(Harold Ross)
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