The Bell Jar

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Larry Peerce

Status Released

Release Date 1979-03-20

Storyline

Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.

"Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage..."