The Group (film)
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| Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
| Produced by | Sidney Buchman |
| Written by | Sidney Buchman Mary McCarthy novel |
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| Music by | Laurence Rosenthal |
| Cinematography | Boris Kaufman |
| Edited by | Ralph Rosenblum |
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Famartists Productions S.A.
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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150 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.4 million |
| Box office | $6 million |
The Group is a 1966 ensemble film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the novel of the same name by Mary McCarthy about a group of female graduates from a Vassar-like college during the early 1930s.
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. For its time, the film touched on controversial topics, such as free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism, and mental illness.
After their university days, eight women go their separate ways. Lakey, always regarded as their leader, leaves for Europe to begin a new life on her own.
The domestic lives of the others go mainly awry. Priss has married a doctor but has two miscarriages. Kay weds a playwright who cheats on her. Dottie gives up a flamboyant lifestyle in Greenwich Village to settle down with a dull Arizona businessman. Pokey has her hands full with two sets of twins.
As for the others, Polly has an affair with a married man, Helena travels the world but is unable to find happiness at home, while Libby, a success in the literary world, is frigid in her personal life.
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