The Group (film)

The Group
film poster
Directed by	Sidney Lumet
Produced by	Sidney Buchman
Written by	Sidney Buchman
Starring	Candice Bergen Joan Hackett Elizabeth Hartman Shirley Knight Joanna Pettet Jessica Walter
Music by	Laurence Rosenthal
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman
Editing by	Ralph Rosenblum
Studio	Famartists Productions S.A.
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	4 March 1966
Running time	150 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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 Connecticut College-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 (Empty Nest, Soap). For its time, the movie touched on some controversial topics, such as free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism and mental illness.

The movie was not issued in any consumer format, including VHS and DVD, for many years. In 2009, Amazon.com began selling a DVD-R of the film.

Cast

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

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.

External links

• The Group at the Internet Movie Database
• The Group at AllRovi