Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
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R,2hrs 3min
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1994
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Image Entertainment
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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The great achievement of Alan Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is that it allows us to empathize with Dorothy Parker on her long descent. Full Review
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out of 100
Featured Cast
Dorothy Parker
Charles MacArthur
Robert Benchley
Alan Campbell
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