Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
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Directed by	Alan Rudolph
Written by	Alan Rudolph Randy Sue Coburn
Produced by	Robert Altman
Starring	Jennifer Jason Leigh Campbell Scott Matthew Broderick Peter Gallagher Jennifer Beals Andrew McCarthy Wallace Shawn Martha Plimpton Sam Robards Lili Taylor James LeGros Gwyneth Paltrow Heather Graham Stephen Baldwin Tom McGowan Rebecca Miller
Music by	Mark Isham
Production company	Miramax Films
Distributed by	Fine Line Features
Release date	September 7, 1994 (1994-09-07)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$7 million[1]
Box office	$2,144,667[2]

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 American biographical drama film directed by Alan Rudolph from a screenplay written by Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn. The film stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as writer Dorothy Parker and depicts 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. Leigh won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

Peter Benchley, who plays editor Frank Crowninshield, was the grandson of humorist Robert Benchley, who once worked underneath Crowninshield. Actor Wallace Shawn is the son of William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker.