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Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Matthew Broderick,
Campbell Scott,
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Alan Rudolph
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: Image Entertainment
: Drama, Costume Drama/Period Piece, Biopics
: 125 min.
: English
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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 second husband Alan Campbell (Peter Gallagher), recalls her glory days as an Algonquinite. A great deal of attention is afforded Parker's vituperative bon mots, her alcoholism, her self-destructiveness, her suicide attempts, and her affairs with such literary contemporaries as Charles MacArthur (an uncharacteristically unsympathetic Matthew Broderick) and Robert E. Sherwood (Nick Cassavetes). The one person Parker truly seems to care about is humorist Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott), who prefers to keep their friendship platonic. Director Alan Rudolph attempts to convey the ambience of the 1920s by having dozens of that decade's luminaries appear in fleeting cameos, from Will Rogers (Keith Carradine) to Harpo Marx. Also featured in Mrs. Parker are Tom McGowan as the waspish Alexander Woollcott and Andrew McCarthy as Dorothy's near-invisible first husband, Eddie Parker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
GreenCine Says:
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994; $12.45). Another cult title making its debut on DVD, Alan Rudolph's film transports us back to the 1920s of Dorothy Parker, the oft-quoted, witty woman at the center of the Algonquin Round Table. "What it tries to do it does so extraordinarily well," wrote Marjorie Baumgartner in The Austin Chronicle, "and that is to capture a moment in time and look more closely at the scars hidden underneath the blue ribbons gaily camouflaging Parker's slit wrists. Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance is so incredible that witnessing it is reason enough to take a look at this movie."
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