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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.
Original Release
09/07/1994
US Release
11/23/1994
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jennifer Jason Leigh | Dorothy Parker |
Campbell Scott | Robert Benchley |
Matthew Broderick | Charles MacArthur |
Peter Gallagher | Alan Campbell |
Jennifer Beals | Gertrude Benchley |
Andrew McCarthy | Eddie Parker |
Wallace Shawn | Horatio Byrd |
Martha Plimpton | Jane Grant |
Sam Robards | Harold Ross |
Lili Taylor | Edna Ferber |
Directors
Writers
Alan Rudolph, Randy Sue Coburn
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jennifer Jason Leigh | Dorothy Parker |
Campbell Scott | Robert Benchley |
Matthew Broderick | Charles MacArthur |
Peter Gallagher | Alan Campbell |
Jennifer Beals | Gertrude Benchley |
Andrew McCarthy | Eddie Parker |
Wallace Shawn | Horatio Byrd |
Martha Plimpton | Jane Grant |
Sam Robards | Harold Ross |
Lili Taylor | Edna Ferber |
James Le Gros | Deems Taylor |
Gwyneth Paltrow | Paula Hunt |
Nick Cassavetes | Robert Sherwood |
David Thornton | George S. Kaufman |
Heather Graham | Mary Kennedy Taylor |
Tom McGowan | Alexander Woollcott |
Chip Zien | Franklin P. Adams |
Gary Basaraba | Heywood Broun |
Jane Adams | Ruth Hale |
Stephen Baldwin | Roger Spalding |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Scott Bushnell | Executive Producer |
Ira Deutchman | Executive Producer |
Robert Altman | Producer |
James McLindon | Producer |
Allan F. Nicholls | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1995 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |