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A trio of beautiful girls who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy East Coast College – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers.
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Returning to college to visit friends some time after graduating everyone was full of stories of an amazing group of girls who had revolutionized campus social life. They dressed up, wore perfume and transformed university socializing which in our day had been grungy and grim.
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Except for a day on a Brooklyn sound stage the entire film would be shot at or just around Sailors’ Snug Harbor in Staten Island, New York – legally within the New York City limits but geographically and culturally (if that’s the word) connected to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania mid-Atlantic land mass which we had always considered the probable locus of the fictional Seven Oaks.
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Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig) is the indomitable group leader — though later shown somewhat dominated — whose central project is looking for troubled souls to rescue. “Violet has the element of the child who goes around looking for hurt birds,” says Stillman. “Her group is a self-designated animal rescue league, looking for ‘hurt birds’ they can assist. Unfortunately they sometimes misidentify a bird that isn’t a hurt; sometimes the hurt bird strikes back.”
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Heather (Carrie MacLemore) is the third wheel in Violet’s group. Petite and sweet, she has developed unique theories regarding the relationship between physical characteristics and human behavior. “Heather is not tremendously smart but has a lot of candid opinions and is not afraid to turn those opinions against herself,” says Stillman.
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Charlie (Adam Brody) is the suave young businessman who attracts the attentions of two of the women in the group. “Charlie is a man of strong ideals and opinions,” says Brody. “He’s extremely nostalgic for a bygone era of art and manners and civility in expression, of being chivalrous. He’s a really good guy, and yet at the same time he thinks that making it up and lying are different things, as long as his intentions are good.”
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Take Frank, my friend — he’s not some cool, handsome, “studly” macho-guy. No, not at all — I can’t bear guys like that! Frank’s sort of a sad-sack really, wouldn’t you say?
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