The Ten-Year Lunch
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| The Ten-Year Lunch | |
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| Directed by | Aviva Slesin |
| Produced by | Aviva Slesin |
| Written by | Peter Foges Mary Jo Kaplan |
| Release date(s) |  March, 1987 |
| Running time | 56 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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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.
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| Preceded by Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got tied with Down and Out in America |
Academy Award for Documentary Feature 1987 |
Succeeded by Hôtel Terminus |
