Director Alan Rudolph and producer Robert Altman combine forces to create a quiet, intelligent film about Dorothy Parker, remembered equally as a writer of mordant short stories and as a permanent fixture of the legendary Algonquin Round Table--the luncheon locus of New York literati for
more than a decade.
Opening (in B&W) in Hollywood in 1937, the film segues smoothly from Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott) filming one of his classic shorts to a studio lot encounter between Benchley and Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh) with husband and fellow screenwriter Alan Campbell (Peter Gallagher) in tow.
Invited to recall the "more colorful" twenties, we flash back (in co...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
125 mins