Movie
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Details
- Release date
- 1994-09-07
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Fine Line Features, Miramax
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker
- Campbell Scott as Robert Benchley
- Matthew Broderick as Charles MacArthur
- Peter Gallagher as Alan Campbell
- Jennifer Beals as Gertrude Benchley
- Andrew McCarthy as Eddie Parker
- Wallace Shawn as Horatio Byrd
- Martha Plimpton as Jane Grant
- Sam Robards as Harold Ross
- Lili Taylor as Edna Ferber
- James Le Gros as Deems Taylor
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Paula Hunt
Crew
- Alan Rudolph - Director
- Randy Sue Coburn - Writer
- Alan Rudolph - Writer
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