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The Ten-Year Lunch

1987 · 56 min

A warm, witty stroll through a vanished literary scene, rich in anecdotes and gentle nostalgia.

Tagline: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Overview: 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.
How it feels: Warm, satirical, melancholic and whimsical. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Friendship, art, media, celebrity
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
art
media
celebrity
memory
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild