August 6, 2008
Good enough to watch a second go.
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Matthew Broderick,
Campbell Scott,
Peter Gallagher,
Jennifer Beals
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Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter me... read more
DVD Release Date: September 5, 2006
Stats: 85 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (85)
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June 16, 2011A movie a bout a life that really needs to be told, sadly this movie focuses on the torrid affairs like some grocery store rag and when Leigh speaks you really need subtitles which are cruelly not missing. Leigh stretches her voice so far her voice is monotone with little intonat... read more
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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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June 15, 2011My Favorite Jennifer Jason Leigh role, she shows some chops I never really noticed before, with the exception of Single White Female,as Dorothy Parker.Dorothy Parker was a Colorful, Opinionated, Feminist Writer of the 1920's famous for Her Crassness,Manish Style of Dress, & Quick... 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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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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May 23, 2007I'm a huge Dorothy Parker fan and this was horrifically disappointing. It's filled with punchlines without set-ups. the Alan Rudolph treatment didn't benefit it.
Critic Reviews
March 26, 2009
Todd McCarthy, Variety
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" has its flaws, but it also has a heartfelt grasp of what set Dorothy Parker apart from her fellow revelers and makes her so emblematic a figure even today. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
The Dorothy Parker that Leigh and Rudolph present isn't one-dimensional. In addition to being savagely funny, she is also capable of great elegance and genuine insight. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
What a wonderful, detailed portrait. And what an evocation of a time and a mood. "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' is truly one of those films that inhabits its own world. Full Review
July 3, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Rudolph's effort to dramatize the life of the acerbic writer is dissatisfying due to shallow script that offers only a sketchy look, and Jennfer Jason Leigh's stiff rendition further hampered by arch ... Full Review
November 12, 2003
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Only Alan Rudolph could make these people dull.
October 18, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
A great ensemble helps to cut through a fairly stuffy narrative.
August 23, 2002
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Demonstrates how even highly gifted people can bring themselves down Full Review
January 1, 2000
Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City
All of the performers are up for it, at turns witty and bright, clever and funny, tart and tragic. Full Review
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