The Ten-Year Lunch

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name = The Ten-Year Lunch

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imdb_id = 0094119
writer = Peter Foges
Mary Jo Kaplan
starring =
director = Aviva Slesin
producer = Aviva Slesin
country = USA
distributor =
released = flagicon|USA March, 1987
runtime = 56 min.
language = English
budget =

"The Ten-Year Lunch" (also known in full as "the Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table") is a documentary film about the Algonquin Round Table, a floating group of writers and actors in the "Roaring Twenties" in New York City, which included great names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Harold Ross and Harpo Marx. It was narrated by Heywood Hale Broun.

The title refers to the fact that the members of the Round Table met over lunch at the Algonquin Hotel. The film shows how the group drifted apart once the 1920s ended, as Hollywood beckoned for some and as they grew older.

In 1987, the film won Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094119/ The Ten-Year Lunch at Internet Movie Database]

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title=Academy Award for Documentary Feature
years=1987
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tied with
"Down and Out in America"
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