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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Country: USA, Language: English, 126 mins

  • Director: Alan Rudolph
  • Writer: Alan Rudolph; Randy Sue Coburn
  • Producer: Robert Altman; Scott Bushnell

CGiii Comment

A beautiful production with a shambolic central performance.

Jennifer Jason Leigh's voice...it's like a cat's claws being dragged down a gargantuan blackboard. Horrible.

The direction, look at the producer...it's that Altman influence AGAIN!

Insufferable.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

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 LeGros as Deems Taylor;
Gwyneth Paltrow as Paula Hunt;
Nick Cassavetes as Robert Sherwood;
David Thornton as George S. Kaufman;
Heather Graham as Mary Kennedy Taylor