Movie recommendation - The Group from 1966

[Anonymous]

I saw a mention of this movie online and went and found it this weekend - it follows a group of 1933 Vassar graduates as they move into their adult lives. Starring Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Jessica Walters, and Shirley Knight. Also a young Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, and Hal Holbrook.

It was good - really interesting perspective of marriage, relationships, careers during a time period when I think our perception is that women were without a lot of rights or ambitions.

I watched it on Tubi, but I think it's on other platforms too.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the rec, sounds good!

[Anonymous]

It’s one of my favorite books!

[Anonymous]

Initially I thought this post meant "the group from 1966" and then I realized it meant "The Group"

Reminds me a lot of of the Rona Jaffe books starting with "Class Reunion" and "After the Reunion" ... I read those as a younger woman and completely absorbed those.

But there's a reason these books were never made into miniseries. Perhaps they could be in the future with a whole lot of retrospective introspection into how women's places evolved from the 1960s to the 1980s. Maybe.