The Group
About The Group
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
The Group is a 1966 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. Its themes are ambition, graduation, female friendship, and 1930s.
Candice Bergen takes the lead as Lakey, Joan Hackett as Dottie, Elizabeth Hartman as Priss, and Shirley Knight as Polly. At 152 minutes long, it arrived in March 1966.
The screenplay is by Sidney Buchman. It is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus.
The Green Mile, Murder on the Orient Express, and Mean Girls make useful companions to The Group.