Screenplay:
Eleanor PerryCinematography:
David L. QuaidComposer:
Marvin HamlischCast:
Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Marge Champion, Kim Hunter, Rose Gregorio, Charles Drake, Diana Muldaur, Joan Rivers, Philip Bruns (more)VOD (1)
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On the morning after a booze-filled night, Ned Merrill wakes up in a haze, confronted by the sterility of his isolated, wealthy suburban existence. So he decides to traverse this upper-class world swimming pool by swimming pool: he goes to each neighbor's house, swims through the chlorinated waters of the requisite backyard pool, and chats with the owner. Among the people he sees are his longtime mistress, a sexy babysitter and a couple of politically-liberal (or so they believe) nudists. (official distributor synopsis)
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"I'm a very special human being. Noble. And splendid." In some ways, a very peculiar and magical pool movie, where the journey is not the destination but the preparation for it. As it is overcome by truth, what emerges from suburban cruelty, the pace of hypocrite Ned Merrill in the azure waters of neighboring hypocrites loses its vitality. This is the true Haunting in Connecticut!
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When you talk about “The Swimmer", will you talk about yourself? No, but I'll talk about how The Swimmer is being resurrected five decades after its creation and serves as a forerunner of Don Draper, synonymous with “a complex, living, ragged character with demons". Quite rightly, because even after all those decades, The Swimmer is still as current as it was when the movie was made. Even if you are not a charming sinful dad who is already past the prime years of his life, who lives with his ideal American family in the suburbs, has a great time with beauties from the neighborhood before humbly returning home in the evening. It's a pity that the empty cover of “American smiles and weekend garden parties" treads water and takes up an entire half of the running time. It was supposed to start falling apart much sooner, because in the second half, with each new pool, jumping and diving deeper into the depths of surrealism, it gets better and better. And during the final pool scenes, it is by far the best among movies in a similar vein.
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