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Eight young women from the Vassar College class of 1933 rush out into the world to find exciting lives, but discover nothing is quite as they dreamed. Rather than blazing trails in art, science ...
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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.
After an overdose, heroin addict Kara returns to the support group she abandoned for one last chance to make things right. But not everyone can forgive and forget....
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The Group, the 1966 film directed by Sidney Lumet, is based on Mary McCarthy’s 1963 best-selling novel that broke ground by presenting the extraordinary notion that young women graduating from college in the 1930s had liberating thoughts in their heads regarding politics, independence, sex, marriage, career, and motherhood (SARCASM).
The Group: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight. After graduating from a prestigious Eastern university, 8 devoted female friends go their separate ways: one leaves for Europe, while the others experience troubled relationships.
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- Sidney Lumet
- 1966-03-04
Glossy soap opera about 8 Vassar graduates of 1933. It follows their lives after college and deals with alcoholism, mental breakdowns, frigidity, beatings, adultery, child rearing, lesbianism and death. I tried reading the book this was based on but I couldn't understand it.
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The Group, released in 1966 but set in the 1930s, was a true ensemble effort that felt incredibly ahead of it's time, confronting issues such as abortion, domestic violence, sexuality, mental health, sexual assault, and the entrenched gender roles of the time period.