Cinema: History Test

A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Directed by Rob Cohen Screenplay by Ezra Sacks

Let's see, did they leave anything out? They have Johnson and Nixon, and the draft lottery (and the anxiety it caused) on television, a confrontation in the Harvard Yard between cops and students, liberated women taking karate lessons and putting on antimale skits, a bookstore being converted into a head shop, a onetime Eagle Scout becoming a member of the Weather Underground, suggestions of a certain uninhibitedness or, anyway, bluntness about sex—why, the principals even set up a ménage à trois...

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