

“New York in the 1920's. The only place to be was the Algonquin, and the only person to know was Dorothy Parker.”
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Directed by Alan Rudolph, Scott Bushnell, Ira Deutchman
User score
57 votes



Released
September 7, 1994
2h 5m
English

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