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6.5/10   400 votes
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Director:
Sidney Lumet
Writers:
Mary McCarthy (novel)
Sidney Buchman (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
4 March 1966 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Books: Review: A Fortunate Age
 (From The AV Club. 13 May 2009, 10:00 PM, PDT)

Lumet Film Selected for Berlinale
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 26 January 2006)

User Comments:
Admittedly, similar to a soap opera in content.... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Candice Bergen ... Lakey
Joan Hackett ... Dottie
Elizabeth Hartman ... Priss
Shirley Knight ... Polly
Joanna Pettet ... Kay
Mary-Robin Redd ... Pokey

Jessica Walter ... Libby
Kathleen Widdoes ... Helena
James Broderick ... Dr. Ridgeley
James Congdon ... Sloan Crockett

Larry Hagman ... Harald Peterson
Hal Holbrook ... Gus Leroy

Richard Mulligan ... Dick Brown
Robert Emhardt ... Mr. Andrews
Carrie Nye ... Norine
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:150 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
George Gaynes' first film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Libby McAusland sits down to lunch at the hospital cafeteria there is spilled coffee in the saucer of her cup. When she picks up the cup in the next shot the spilled coffee is gone. more
Quotes:
Libby: I'm appalled by all this vulgar breeding. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999) (TV) more

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5 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Admittedly, similar to a soap opera in content...., 9 October 2006
8/10
Author: MarieGabrielle from United States

but this film is interesting for the cast, and the time period it depicts. Also the costumes are rather amusing. I have not yet read the book although several reviews have mentioned the time warp factor. Candice Bergen is in an early role as member of an elite group of Vassar graduates. Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet, Larry Hagman (as her alcoholic husband), Hal Holbrook, James Broderick, Jessica Walter (as swinging single gossip in the NY publishing world), Kathleen Widdoes, Carrie Nye, Elizabeth Hartman and several other notable appearances make for an interesting cast. Some of the dialog will take you back to a different time. The controversy of breast over bottle feeding, Republican vs. FDR Democrat (there are some pretty amusing scenes between Priss (Elizabeth Hartman) and her pediatrician husband, a Republican, who says after her second miscarriage this will give him a bad reputation in the hospital (!). Obviously, the book may be more interesting, and less histrionic. Jessica Walter is very good, and amusing; wish she had done more films in the 80's and 90's (She was great in "Slums of Beverly Hills", with Alan Arkin, as well). I do not watch regular television although several have mentioned she is very good in the Ron Howard comedy "Arrested Development". At any rate, a good escapist film, which I would not completely dismiss as soap opera, since there are skilled actors and some worthwhile dialog. 8/10.

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