Dorothy Parker's The Sexes is a film based on the short story by the famous author, originally published in the New Republic on July 13, 1927 and today still available in
The Portable Dorothy Parker.
Please visit The Dorothy Parker Society at www.DorothyParker.com for more information about Ms. Parker and her work. The producers wish to thank the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for permitting this use of Ms. Parker’s work. You can learn more about the NAACP by visiting www.NAACP.org.
The producers also wish to thank the New York Apple Association for the permission to use their photograph of the braeburn apple. |
t the height of the Roaring Twenties in upper class Manhattan, Adam insists on knowing why Evelyn is giving him the silent treatment. Could the seductive Florence Leaming be to blame? All's fair in love and war and the two meet in a battle of The Sexes.
The film was an official selection of the 2008 Hoboken International Film Festival.
Author, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, Parker's work pushes all buttons at once: humor, anger, love, pity and everything in between. She pulled no punches, writing with pure, unadulterated passion; her work is timeless and as pertinent to today's society as it was to that of the time she wrote.
Her quips and light verse have become part of the American literary landscape, but Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living ordinary lives.