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Mood:
- CleverWitty
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Plot:
- Artist's LifeWriter's LifeCrumbling MarriageDownfallRise and FallIntrospectionCouple RelationsFriendship more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 20s20th Century30s40s50s
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Place:
- New YorkHotel
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- Ensemble CastTalky
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- BiographyBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, 1994
English
USA
Profile of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
The mood of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is clever and witty. The plot centers around a downfall, alcohol abuse, and tragic love. It is a drama, independent, and period movie. Stylistically, it stars an ensemble cast and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a hotel. The setting is New York. It happens in the 1920s, in the 1930s, and in the 1950s. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story.
Summary of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Robert Altman produced this evocative portrait of renowned writer and wit Dorothy Parker that chronicles her boozy adventures both in Manhattan as a writer for The New Yorker and member of the celebrated Algonquin roundtable and later in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers a stunning performance as the drunken, depressed, but undeniably clever Mrs. Parker, and she's ably assisted by a stellar supporting cast, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Gallagher, Stephen Baldwin, Wallace Shawn, Matthew Broderick, Lili Taylor, Jennifer Beals, and Campbell Scott as her main partner in crime, the equally besotted wit Robert Benchley. Director Alan Rudolph captures the brilliance as well as the tragedy of these literary celebrities. The result is an unsparingly honest portrait of alcoholism and ego, and a loving celebration of Parker's gutsy battle against sexual discrimination and her own romantic failures in pursuit of artistic expression. Featuring sumptuous photography that conveys the decadence of the period and a great score by Mark Isham, the film is a treat for the eyes and ears as well as the mind.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 23 November 1994 |
| Runtime: | 126 min |
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as Dorothy Parker
as Charles MacArthur
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