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VHS : Mrs Parker & Vicious Circle


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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303422138
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6303422136
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: March 26, 1996
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 17950
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 1994

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Amazon.com:
The press kit's historical notes should be standard issue for anyone who sees Alan Rudolph's (The Moderns, Choose Me) look at the famous intellectuals who dotted New York's finest hour in the 1920s. If you only know the names of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, et al. in passing, this movie will hardly generate more study. These writers and thinkers, most famous for having lunch daily at the Algonquin Hotel, seem as weightless and thin as the fictional ones in The Moderns. Most luminous is Mrs. Parker (Jennifer Jason Leigh), whose passion for unhappiness is rarely interrupted. Leigh, in a performance that viewers seem to love or loathe, swirls 'witty' dialogue with pure force and must be praised for keeping your interest in a life that was so dreary. The chief problem is not the performances (Campbell Scott is quite fun in a change-of-pace role); it's that the movie comes off as a taped show on stage: the characters are not real and it's all dress-up. Rudolph illustrates his main character's writing (done far too seldom in writers' bios) by having Leigh speak Parker's poetry directly into the camera. --Doug Thomas



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - IT'S ONLY ME., BUT:
GOOD MOVIE SHOWING A WOMEN BEFORE HER TIME. A WOMEN TRYING TO MAKE IT IN THE FILM INDUSTRY AGAINST ALL THE MEN. HAD TO BE TWICE AS GOOD AND WORK TWICE AS HARD. A TIME PEICE. YOUNGE QWENETH PAL JM


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hard core fans only
I liked this movie. But only people who really love Mrs. Parker should see it
Also, English teachers should not show this in class due to SOME naked people running around.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - You won't be disappointed
Critics moaned when Jennifer Jason Leigh was tapped to portray Dorothy Parker, the Grand Lady of Barbed Words whose light shone brightest in the colorful 1920s. And, predictably, many critics trashed Leigh's performance. But, while Leigh made her name making sexy comedies and sexy thrillers, she actually does an excellent job here as the witty wordsmith in "Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle." OK, so she played a sexy wordsmith, getting naked with fellow writer Charles MacArthur (Matthew Broderick) ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Subtitles?
Does someone know if this DVD has English subtitles or at least closed captioning? Thanks!


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Top-flight writing and acting
I had owned this film in the VHS version, and it wasn't easy finding the DVD version but finally was able to get it via Amazon.
If you have any interest in the New York literary society of the 1920s; in the writers Dorothy Parker, Charles McArthur, Robert Benchley,Alexander Woolcott, etc; or if you just enjoy watching great acting, you should not be disappointed with this film. Even Harpo Marx (as a character) makes a brief appearance.
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