Marvin Hamlisch The Swimmer (Blu-ray + DVD + CD) PG
When you talk about "The Swimmer" will you talk about yourself?
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: PG
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 26, 2021
- 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: 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
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
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Frequently silly but oddly memorable and unsettling.
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TV Guide
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: 4/5 --
Ned Merrill is a tragic hero for the '60s, and it's one of Lancaster's most searing performances.
Filmcritic.com
A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/5 --
As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears.
New York 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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 108,764
- UPC: 797679001826
- Shipping Weight: 0.37/lbs (approx)
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