Strike! (1998) on Netflix
In 1963, Odette Sinclair is sent to Miss Godard's, an all-girls academy, and welcomed into Verena von Stefan's secret club. A proposed merger with a nearby boys' academy divides the students.
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Plot summary
Odette Sinclair's parents send her to Miss Godard's, a girls' school in New England, in the winter of 1963, after they discover what she and her boyfriend, Dennis, had planned. Headmistress Miss McVane runs the school, and Odette's roommates are Verena von Stefan and Tinka Parker, the pair who mock hall monitor Abigail Sawyer. After a hazing, Odette joins the D.A.R., a secret club that meets in the attic above the cafeteria and counts Theresa Goldberg and Maureen Haines among its members, with Verena as its leader. Verena intends to start a fashion magazine, and Odette talks about politics. The club sets up a night for Odette and Dennis. Then word spreads that Miss Godard's may merge with St. Ambrose, a nearby boys' academy, and the students divide over it.
Cast
- Brenda Devineas Miss Phipps
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Strike! (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Sarah Kernochan said in 2019 that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein intentionally shelved the film, even though he had told her it would screen in 2,000 U.S. theaters; the episode is detailed in Peter Biskind's book Down and Dirty Pictures.
- The song "The Hairy Bird" plays over the end credits, written by writer-director Sarah Kernochan and sung by a group that included her and five of her Rosemary Hall classmates, among them Glenn Close.
- Miramax insisted on retitling the film Strike! because it found the original working title, The Hairy Bird, an allusion to male genitalia, too offensive.
- Sarah Kernochan's screenplay, set in 1963, was based loosely on her own experiences at Rosemary Hall around that time.
