The read
It runs long at 2h 32m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes75%
37 audience votes
Key crew
- Sidney LumetDirector
- Charles GrossOriginal Music Composer
- Sidney BuchmanScreenplay
Cast
- Candice BergenLakey
- Joan HackettDottie
- Elizabeth HartmanPriss
- Shirley KnightPolly
- Joanna PettetKay
- Mary-Robin ReddPokey
- Jessica WalterLibby
- Kathleen WiddoesHelena
- James BroderickDr. Ridgeley
- James CongdonSloan Crockett
- Larry HagmanHarald Peterson
- Hal HolbrookGus Leroy
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Themes
based on novel or bookambitiongraduationfemale friendship1930s