Circle of Power, a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White , was based on the book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled. The film is also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend.
Yvette Mimieux plays the chief executive of a giant corporation called "Mystique", but the organization is also known as "Executive Development Training", or EDT. Christopher Allport plays Jack Nilsson, a decent all-American young...
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Circle of Power, a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White , was based on the book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled. The film is also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend.
Yvette Mimieux plays the chief executive of a giant corporation called "Mystique", but the organization is also known as "Executive Development Training", or EDT. Christopher Allport plays Jack Nilsson, a decent all-American young executive.
Top management executives are required to spend a weekend with her at a hotel, where they are put under psychological pressure. As a prerequisite to the training course, participants must sign a waiver giving the company the release to physically and psychologically abuse the individuals in the course. The participants struggle with their shortcomings, such as obesity and alcoholism. Another individual is a closet homosexual, and a fourth is a transvestite. At one point in the film, the obese trainee is forced to eat trash and...
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