The Swimmer (Blu-ray + DVD) PG
When you talk about "The Swimmer" will you talk about yourself?
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 25, 2014
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Grindhouse Releasing
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Lancaster | |
Performer: | Janice Rule, Marge Champion, Kim Hunter & Joan Rivers | |
Directed by | Frank Perry | |
Screenwriting by | Eleanor Perry | |
Composition by | Marvin Hamlisch | |
Story by | John Cheever | |
Produced by | Frank Perry & Roger Lewis | |
Director of Photography: | David Quaid |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Beautifully shot and executed, the effort is generous with disturbing, puzzling behavior, yet wise enough to provide clear clues to aid interpretation.
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Blu-ray.com
Rating: 4/5 --
As effectively as almost any movie ever made about American suburbia, The Swimmer gets the contentment that comes with material success[...] And it gets how the fantasy is hard to sustain.
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The Dissolve
Like a series of hammer-blows to the gut.
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culturevulture.net
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A woefully forgotten gem from the 1960s ... a penetrating piece of introspection that was clearly ahead of its time.
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Creative Loafing
A mannerist, moody and wonderfully strange allegory of the squandered American Dream. Like a plunge into the deep end, it stings and refreshes.
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Film4
A resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/4 --
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Burt Lancaster stars in this adaptation of John Cheever's dreamlike short story about one man's highly unusual attempt to find meaning in his life. 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. This interesting, overlooked film, is a visually captivating look at the essential emptiness of the "American Dream."
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- Sales Rank: 37,355
- UPC: 797679001024
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