A Small Circle of Friends is a film released in 1980 by MGM starring Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelly Long, and an uncredited Craig Richard Nelson, who played Bell in The Paper Chase, another Harvard set film. The film follows the life of three students (Davis, Allen, Parker) at Harvard University in the 1960s
. The soundtrack features instrumental music composed by Jim Steinman.
Some outdoor riot sequences were filmed some 37 miles south of Cambridge at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts after Harvard declined to allow the filming on their campus.
