Women On The Verge As 'the Group' Turns 50

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Movie
Wed, 07/27/2016 - 5:40pm

Rarely revived and not often remembered, 1966’s “The Group” was a big deal in its day, a prestige Hollywood picture directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring something that was as unusual then as it is now: a film that centered on the lives of women. Taken from a bestselling novel by Mary McCarthy...

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