Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library March 4, 2009

Film: Dogfight (1991), directed by Nancy Savoca

Feature film set in 1963. The night before leaving for Vietnam, a group of young soldiers engage in a “dogfight,” with the one who finds the most unattractive girl winning a prize. The relationship of one young man and his “date” develops in ways neither foresaw. Starring Lili Taylor, River Phoenix, and Holly Near.

Speaker: A discussion with Andrea Walsh, Lecturer in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Women Studies, and Comparative Media Studies at M.I.T, will follow the film.

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