August 6, 2008
Good enough to watch a second go.
Andrew McCarthy, Campbell Scott, David Thornton
Jennifer Jason Leigh portrays the inimitable poet and essayist Dorothy Parker through her triumphs and trials as a fixture of Manhattan's legendary literary cadre known as the Algonquin Round Table. W...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 5, 2006
Stats: 69 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (69)
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June 25, 2008Jennifer Jason Leigh gives a great performance as one of my favorite writers.
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May 27, 2008Not a bad flix. You definatly get the feel for the time but I wanted more. I wanted to know more of the characters in the circle and what happened to them over time.
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July 19, 2009I LOVE this movie. The cast is beyond compare. It's the sad tale of a woman whose great talent was sunk by her love of beautiful young men who disappeared with little regard and her own increasing alcoholism. She was a brilliant, clever woman. The true love of her life, Robert Be...( read more)
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February 24, 2009About author and poet Dorthy Parker. She is the person with the clever saying "Men seldom make passes with girls who wear glasses".
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December 27, 2007Despite a solid supporting cast (Campbell Scott was great) and nicely made production/costume design but I found it to be a overlong and tedious biopic that was frustrating and lacked any insight. Plus I thought that Jennifer Jason Leigh was annoying as "Mrs. Parker".
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May 24, 2007Jennifer Jason Leigh mumbles her way through his film in one of the worst actiing performances that I have seen. Not worth the celluloid it was filmed upon.
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