The Women's Room (1980)

Directed by

Glenn Jordan

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 18m

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in the 1950s leaves her husband and goes to college to find a new life. She faces challenges and discovers friendships with other women in the same situation.

dramaticemotionalearnestconversationaldatedseriouscalm-pacedreflective

What happens

The Women's Room is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Lee Remick, Ted Danson, Colleen Dewhurst and Tovah Feldshuh. In spite of Esther Shapiro's (ABC's vice president for miniseries) struggle with the (predominantly male) network to release the film despite its feminist content, "The Women's Room finally aired, and it received a huge 45 share (the highest rated movie on TV that week), prompted a raft of positive mail, and won an Emmy". The film is an adaptation of the novel The Women's Room by Marilyn French. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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