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.
Alan Rudolph
Director, Writer
Randy Sue Coburn
Writer

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
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