The Group

Mar 4, 1966

2h 32m

★ 5.6

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Famartists Productions S.A.

United Artists

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Cast

Lakey

Candice Bergen

Dottie

Joan Hackett

Priss

Elizabeth Hartman

Polly

Shirley Knight

Kay

Joanna Pettet

Pokey

Mary-Robin Redd

Libby

Jessica Walter

Helena

Kathleen Widdoes

Dr. Ridgeley

James Broderick

Sloan Crockett

James Congdon

Harald Peterson

Larry Hagman

Gus Leroy

Hal Holbrook

Autumn is in the air as the Kitauji High School concert band prepares for the National Competition. The band hears troubling news that Asuka Tanaka, vice president of the club and one of the key euphonium players in the band, may quit! Asuka is beautiful and charismatic and everyone relies on her, but she also has a cool side and never reveals her true self. Kumiko doesn’t get along with Asuka initially, but her feelings change when she learns that Asuka may actually drop out. Asuka has feelings about the euphonium that she cannot tell anyone else…

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