The Group (film)

The Group (film)

Infobox Movie
name = The Group


image_size = 200px
caption = film poster
imdb_id = 0060479
producer = Sidney Buchman
director = Sidney Lumet
writer = Sidney Buchman
starring = Candice Bergen
Joan Hackett
Elizabeth Hartman
Shirley Knight
Joanna Pettet
music = Laurence Rosenthal
cinematography = Boris Kaufman
editing = Ralph Rosenblum
distributor = United Artists
released = 1966 | runtime = 150 min
language =

"The Group" (1966) is an 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, and Joanna Pettet. The film also features small roles for Larry Hagman later of ("Dallas") and Richard Mulligan ("Empty Nest", "Soap"). For its time, the movie touched on some controversial topics, such as free love, lesbianism and mental illness.

Cultural impact

*Joan Hackett was nominated for the British BAFTA Film Award for the best foreign (i.e. non-British) actress.

* Spoofed in MAD Magazine in 1966 as "The Bunch."

External links

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