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Director
  
Sidney Lumet

Music director
  
Charles Gross

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Sidney Buchman

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
March 4, 1966 (1966-03-04)

Writer
  
Mary McCarthy (novel), Sidney Buchman (screenplay)

Cast
  
Candice Bergen
(Lakey),
Joan Hackett
(Dottie),
Elizabeth Hartman
(Priss),
Shirley Knight
(Polly),
Joanna Pettet
(Kay),
Mary-Robin Redd
(Pokey)

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The Group is a 1966 ensemble film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the novel of the same name by Mary McCarthy about the lives a group of eight female graduates from a Vassar-like college South Tower from 1933 to 1940.

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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.

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Plot

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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.

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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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With the war's intensity building in Europe in 1939, Lakey returns home. When the others discover that the woman with her is more than just a traveling companion, they realize that she is a lesbian. After a tragedy that results in the death of one of the women in 1940, Lakey leads them to the funeral for one last time together as a group.

Main

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  •  Candice Bergen as Lakey
  • Joan Hackett as Dottie Renfrew Latham
  • Elizabeth Hartman as Priss Hartshorn Crockett
  • Shirley Knight as Polly Andrews Ridgeley
  • Joanna Pettet as Kay Strong Peterson
  • Mary-Robin Redd as Pokey
  • Jessica Walter as Libby MacAusland
  • Kathleen Widdoes as Helena Davison
  • James Broderick as Dr. James "Jim" Ridgeley
  • James Congdon as Sloan Crockett
  • Larry Hagman as Harald Peterson
  • Hal Holbrook as Gus Leroy
  • Richard Mulligan as Dick Brown
  • Robert Emhardt as Henry Andrews
  • Carrie Nye as Norine Blake

    • Supporting

  • Philippa Bevans as Mrs. Hartshorn
  • Leta Bonynge as Mrs. Prothero
  • Marion Brash as Radio Man's Wife
  • Sarah Burton as Mrs. Davison
  • Flora Campbell as Mrs. MacAusland
  • Bruno Di Cosmi as Nils
  • Leora Dana as Mrs. Renfrew
  • Bill Fletcher as Bill, the Actor
  • George Gaynes as Brook Latham
  • Martha Greenhouse as Mrs. Bergler
  • Russell Hardie as Mr. Davison
  • Vince Harding as Mr. Eastlake
  • Doreen Lang as Nurse Swenson
  • Chet London as Radio Man
  • Baruch Lumet as Mr. Schneider
  • John O'Leary as Put Blake
  • Hildy Parks as Nurse Catherine
  • Lidia Prochnicka as The Baroness
  • Polly Rowles as Mrs. Andrews
  • Douglas Rutherford as Mr. Prothero
  • Truman Smith as Mr. Bergler
  • Loretta White as Mrs. Eastlake

    • Cameo Appearance/Uncredited

  • Arthur Anderson as Pokey's husband John Beauchamp
  • Ron Charles as Dr. Jones
  • Richard Graham as Rev. Garland
  • Edward Holmes as Mr. MacAusland

    • Release

    The film grossed $6 million at the box office, earning $3 million in US theatrical rentals. It was the 25th highest-grossing film of 1966.

    The Group was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on January 15, 2011, via the MGM Choice Collection as a Region 1 manufacture-on-demand DVD.

    Reception

    Variety wrote that the film is faithful to the novel but retains too much detail.

    Awards

  • Joan Hackett was nominated for the British BAFTA Film Award for the best foreign (i.e. non-British) actress.
  • The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival in 1966.

    • References

    The Group (film) Wikipedia
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