The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
Directed by Aviva Slesin · 56 min · Documentary, TV Movie
16.0 TOPICAL score · #4,939 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987, directed by Aviva Slesin) has a TOPICAL score of 16.0 - ranked 4,939 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on lasting engagement. It won 1 award from 1 nomination, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Audiences: TMDB 6.5/10 (11 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 9 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6.5/10 (11 ratings)
- Awards1 win, 1 nomination - incl. Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 9 languages
- Still read490 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Heywood Hale Broun, Marc Connelly, Margalo Gillmore, Ruth Gordon (actor #454)