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Groupie Girl (1969)

Groupie Girl poster
Original title
I Am a Groupie
Directed by
Derek Ford
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
3.4 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman becomes entangled in the music scene of late 1960s Britain, following the chaotic life of a groupie. The film tracks her relationships with band members and the drift into a world of sex and drugs.

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What happens

Groupie Girl is a 1970 British drama film, directed by Derek Ford and starring Esme Johns, Donald Sumpter and the band Opal Butterfly. The film was written by Ford and former groupie Suzanne Mercer. American International Pictures bought the US distribution rights for £50,000 and released the film in America in 1971 under the title I am a Groupie. It was released in France in 1973, with additional sex scenes, as Les demi-sels de la perversion (The Pimps of Perversion). It was re-released in France in 1974 as Les affamées du mâle (Man-Hungry Women), this time with hardcore inserts. Seventeen minutes of hardcore footage, shot for the film, were discovered in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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