IMDb plot summary: After graduating from a prestigious Eastern university, eight devoted women friends go their separate ways: one leaves for Europe, while the others experience troubled relationships. Sadly, they get to meet one last time as a group.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, and Shirley Knight.
The Group is a Sidney Lumet film about eight women who are all in the same graduating class in college. The film follows their lives after college: their marriages, their job prospects, their political activism, and the relationships they still keep with each other as part of the same group of college friends. The movie moves along very quickly in the kind of way that makes sense when you're marking time between big events. While it's really interesting to dip in and out of each woman's life, there are so many of them, and so many of him look similar to each other, that I could really only keep track of about half of them. This is the kind of thing that I would love to see remade in the current day, as well as one of those ensemble casts that would benefit from star casting because you would be easily able to track who is who. Because this is such an episodic film, much of the narrative doesn't actually emotionally land until the very end. Up until then everything that happens just feels like another small piece of the puzzle and feels a little inconsequential. It's still a very interesting movie and something very different than Lumet ever did again, so I'm really glad I got to see it and would definitely suggest watching it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Group > Hustle & Flow
The Group < Chronicle
The Group < About Elly
The Group < Real Life
The Group > The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
The Group > Black Snake Moan
The Group > Lenny
The Group < Blow Dry
The Group > Les Miserables (1935)
The Group > 101 Dalmatians (1961)
The Group > Censor
Final spot: #1549 out of 3508, or 56%.
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