X
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 5 m
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 5 m
Summary The story of the many heartbreaks of famous writer Dorothy Parker as she spends her days with the Algonquin Round Table.
Directed By: Alan Rudolph
Written By: Randy Sue Coburn, Alan Rudolph
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 5 m
- 1994
- R
- Fine Line Features
- 2 h 5 m
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
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Summary The story of the many heartbreaks of famous writer Dorothy Parker as she spends her days with the Algonquin Round Table.
Directed By: Alan Rudolph
Written By: Randy Sue Coburn, Alan Rudolph
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
66
67% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
66
67% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance is so incredible that witnessing it is reason enough to take a look at this movie.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a top-notch movie. Everything is in place -- a striking lead performance, solid supporting players, a well-written script, and, above all, expert direction to merge the ingredients.
The movie is inventive, hilarious and, in its own sneaky way, moving.
Director Alan Rudolph has certainly done his part, leading a colorful parade of Jazz Age editors, essayists and playwrights in arguably one too many directions - easily surpassing The Moderns, his '20s-expatriate companion piece. [25 Nov 1994, p.4D]
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle directed by Alan Rudolph, a wildly uneven filmmaker who's happily at the top of his form in this offbeat drama.
Alan Rudolph's 1994 feature about writer Dorothy Parker and the famous Algonquin wits she hung out with in the 20s certainly has its pleasures, but someone should tell Rudolph that, for all his skill and charm, period movies aren't really his forte.
Jennifer Jason Leigh's draggy performance as Parker is all studied accent (something vaguely mid- Atlantic but never before heard on Earth) and equally studied self-pity and it cannot sustain our sympathy, or our interest in this inept film.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 5 Nominations
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
