The cast of this social satire includes Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, and Joanna Pettet.

[3] The film also features small roles for Hal Holbrook, Carrie Nye, James Broderick, Larry Hagman and Richard Mulligan.

[3] The film touched on controversial topics for its time: free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism, and mental illness.

After an unhappy affair with a cold, sarcastic painter, Dottie gives up a flamboyant lifestyle in Greenwich Village to marry a dull Arizona businessman.

[6]Bosley Crowther of The New York Times panned it as "a rambling account of the thoroughly banal domestic doings of these eight girl graduates," "so atrociously staged" and "so awkwardly and mawkishly played that it sems not only a travesty of the nineteen-thirties but an insult to a generation of human beings.