From: Reviews and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas (http://www.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam/FilmIndex/home.htm) compiled by John K. McAskill, La Salle University ([email protected])

R3885 RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN (USA, 1980)

Credits: director/writer, . Cast: Mark Arnott, , Maggie Cousineau, Brian Johnston, Adam LeFevre, Bruce MacDonald. Summary: Melodrama set in New Hampshire in the late 1970s. A group of seven anti-Vietnam war activists and their spouses or prospective lovers gather on a New Hampshire farm for a reunion ten years after college. They call themselves the “Secaucus seven” because of their arrest there on the way to a demonstration in Washington in 1968. During the weekend they discuss politics and relationships. Despite varied professions and political positions, their friendship has kept them together through the decade.

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