The Group (1966)

Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 30m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Eight women who graduated from Vassar College in 1933 navigate friendship, romance, and careers through the 1930s. The story follows each of them as they deal with issues like marriage, motherhood, and independence in a changing society.

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What happens

The Group is a 1966 American ensemble drama film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Mary McCarthy about the lives of a group of eight female graduates from Vassar from 1933 to 1940. The cast of this social satire includes Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, and Joanna Pettet. The film also features small roles for Hal Holbrook, Carrie Nye, James Broderick, Larry Hagman and Richard Mulligan. The film touched on controversial topics for its time: free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism, and mental illness. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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