From 1919 to 1929, a legendary group of writers, critics, editors and humorists met daily for lunch at New York's Algonquin Hotel. This Oscar-winning documentary explores the urbane world of these literary giants. Rare archival footage of Dorothy Parker, Helen Hayes and others holding forth at the famous roundtable provides an inside glimpse of the group, whose vicious wit and strong opinions came to embody American high culture in the 1920s.