Group Marriage (1972) on Netflix
Chris bickers with Sandor, the boyfriend she lives with in Santa Monica. She sleeps with Dennis, a probation officer she meets over a two-seater car at her rental agency.
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Plot summary
Chris and her friend Judy work at a car rental agency in Los Angeles. At home in Santa Monica she argues with Sandor, her live-in boyfriend, who writes bumper sticker slogans. Dennis, a probation officer, reaches for the same two-seater car as Chris, and she and Sandor offer him a ride; he referees their quarrel and Chris kicks him in the groin by accident. The couple asks Dennis to stay the night, and Chris joins him in bed. Sandor finds them in the morning. Chris tells him she loves him still and also likes Dennis, and says she can love more than one person. Dennis, for fairness, invites the pair to dinner with Jan, his girlfriend, a former stewardess.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Group Marriage (1972)
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- Stephanie Rothman said Jeffrey Pomerantz, who played Dennis in Group Marriage, kept injecting business into scenes that would throw the cameraman and tried to upstage the others by grimacing, so she solved the problem by using him in fewer scenes.
- Rothman cast Aimée Eccles as the leading lady, Chris, because she had an impish quality and a sparkling manner that suited comedy, and liked that it was nontraditional casting at the time to have someone with Asian features play the lead.
- Larry Woolner, who ran Dimension, wanted Rothman to make a sexy film, so she tried to anchor it in sexual mores; reading the book Future Shock and its discussion of group marriage gave her a framework for a sex comedy about the social pitfalls of such an arrangement.
- Rothman used montages in Group Marriage that she called a shorthand way of showing a quality of the characters without dialogue, and she needed a certain number of them in each film to make the running time long enough to be a feature.
- Group Marriage was the first chance Stephanie Rothman had to make an outright comedy; she said that unlike The Velvet Vampire, it did not go under the guise of being something else.
