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.
Casts Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Andrew McCarthy, Wallace Shawn, Martha Plimpton, Sam Robards, Lili Taylor
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Great New Wonderful
A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy
Toyland
The Big Bad Swim
Last Night
Fausta
Killer Instinct
The Bell Jar
Bird
The New Twenty
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Eternity and a Day
To New Shores
Kiss Me Again
Who Loves the Sun
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
The Razor's Edge
Fish Tank
South of Heaven, West of Hell
King Naresuan Part: 1
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Great New Wonderful
IMDB 4.7 | Apr , 2005
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy
IMDB 4.1 | Dec , 2008
A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and SexualityToyland
IMDB 7.1 | Aug , 2007
On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat to find him. The neighbors' door, with a Star of David painted on it, is ajar, the furnishings in disarray, the family gone. She asks passersby, runs to the police then on to the rail yard. Flashbacks show that Heinrich and the neighbors' son Paul are six years old and best friends. Paul's family's deportation is expected soon; Heinrich's mother tells her son that they're going to Toyland. Heinrich wants to go with them, has a bag packed, and listens for their departure. His mother realizes he's joined them, and her resolve becomes more urgent. Will she arrive in time to save Heinrich?The Big Bad Swim
IMDB 5.5 | Apr , 2006
An adult swim class sets the stage for this sexually charged comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers -- inextricably connected through personal heartbreak -- find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in -- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.Last Night
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 2010
Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.Fausta
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2009
A Felino Tañada’s foray into the life and times of the founder of Sacred Heart Academy in Lucena City, Hermana Fausta, in the 1920sKiller Instinct
IMDB 3.3 | May , 1988
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.The Bell Jar
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2025
Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.Bird
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 1988
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.The New Twenty
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2009
Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 1936
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.Eternity and a Day
IMDB 7.8 | Oct , 1998
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.To New Shores
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1969
On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. Petersburg. Delirium tremens had done its dirty work: there was no hope for recovery. And this “old man” had just turned 42 years old, and it was the great Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Who knows what visions, what memories swarmed in his fevered imagination in rare moments of enlightenment?Kiss Me Again
IMDB 4.5 | Apr , 2006
A married couple decides to test the boundaries of their relationship with a seductive Spanish woman. When an unlikely relationship ensues, all three are forced to rethink their definition of love.Who Loves the Sun
IMDB 5.2 | Jan , 2006
A man encounters a childhood friend who had an affair with his wife five years earlier.Did You Hear About the Morgans?
IMDB 5.4 | Dec , 2009
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.The Razor's Edge
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1984
An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.Fish Tank
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2009
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.South of Heaven, West of Hell
IMDB 4.8 | Jan , 2000
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900s. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. Christmas, journey through the desert to a small town that the ruthless Henry Clan has hit in order to save Casey's love, Adelyne.King Naresuan Part: 1
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 2007
The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Born in 1555, he was taken to Burma as a child hostage; there he became acquainted with sword fighting and became a threat to the Burmese empire.