The Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle series (20 linear feet) consists of materials relating to the 1994 film written by Alan Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn. The film, was directed by Alan Rudolph and produced by Robert Altman and Allan Nicholls, and was filmed in Montreal, Canada. The large cast of actors includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Andrew McCarthy, Stephen Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Stanley Tucci, and many others.
The legal sub-series includes documentation relating to the incorporation and dissolution of Park Bench Films, agreements for the financing, production, and distribution of the film, as well as contracts for the cast and crew, called "Deal memos." The chain of title documents relate to the research and payment of rights.
The bulk of the material is the business and financial sub-series. The sub-series contains budgets, cost reports, petty cash receipts, payroll records, accounts payable records, general ledger documentation, and other financial documents. Some of the documents have U.S. and Canadian versions, and some of the Canadian documents are in French. Accompanying these business materials are the files of Danielle Sotet, (4 linear feet) Altman's accountant located in New York. Her materials, arranged independently within the business and financial sub-series, represent a condensed version of the Mrs. Parker series as a whole, with correspondence, legal, business and financial, and production documents, as well as a script.
In the scripts subseries, multiple versions of the script are included indicating many title changes, with Mrs. Parker and the Round Table remaining as the title until very close to, and possibly overlapping the start of filming.
The production and post-production sub-series includes call sheets, production reports, and shooting schedules detailing the 40 days of filming in Montreal, continuity and spotting lists, sound logs, and editing logs from the post-production phase, as well as other documentation.
There is also one folder of music cue sheets, correspondence and copies of articles related to publicity from Fine Line who distributed the film nationally and Miramax Films who distributed the film internationally. The articles and reviews sub-series has bound collections of reviews of the film. The very limited photographic material includes one photographic still, one sheet of slides with stills, and one sheet of slides of the crew.
Throughout the Mrs. Parker series there are faxes sent back and forth between New York to Canada; these have been photocopied to preserve the information printed on the thermal paper.
