Word: heyl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young men sport and struggle through their studies, only intermittently aware of the global conflict that rages outside their ivy cloister. The movie, an unreasonably faithful adaptation of John Knowles' novel, begins in the summer of 1942, currently a fashionable time for elegies to vanished youth. Finny (John Heyl) and Gene (Parker Stevenson) are roommates and best friends. Finny is forever the leader; Gene is more scholarly, more tentative. Together they form a club frivolously called the "Suicide Society." Initiation involves jumping off the limb of a tall tree into the river below...