American Swing
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 14, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Jon Hart & Mathew Kaufman | |
| Composition by | Jim Coleman | |
| Interviewee: | Helen Gurley Brown, Betty Dodson, Al Goldstein, Buck Henry, Howard Smith & Annie Sprinkle | |
| Produced by | Jon Hart, Mathew Kaufman, Gretchen McGowan & Christian Hoagland | |
| Director of Photography: | Christian Hoagland |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
The film treats Levenson's rapid descent as if someone had turned on the lights at a sex party: scurrying away with pity and irritation that the good times had to end.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
American Swing doesn't have a particularly well-defined point of view, but it is a succinct, entertaining and valuable record of a time that in some ways now seems as remote as the Roaring '20s.
New York Post
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Although American Swing pointedly goes out of its way to include positive testimonials from several women who patronized the club, it leaves you feeling queasy.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A scary reminder of the potentially-disastrous physical and emotional consequences of indiscriminate mating.
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NewsBlaze
Rating: B --
The pearls of wisdom are best extracted from the minds of those who stood on the front line, people who walked into the seminal fluid line of fire and lived to tell the tale.
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DVDTalk.com
Rating: 2/4 --
In the end, the impression isn't that much different from one given by the club's own hairy habitues -- lots of sleazy charm, pounds of gold chains and a smarmy shallowness that goes very, very deep.
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Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 3/5 --
Directors Jon Hart and Matthew Kaufman don't delve deeply enough into the psyche of club founder Larry Levenson or the culture he exploited. But they do present an entertaining snapshot of his brief reign as New York's self-appointed King of Swing.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
In 1970s New York City, Plato's Retreat was an epicenter of sensual excess. The renowned sex club was a thriving destination for patrons who wanted to leave their inhibitions at the door. This colorful documentary recounts the creation of the club by Larry Levenson, and its ultimate demise during the AIDS era.
Product Description:
The Seventies were sexy and sleazy. At the epicenter of it all was Plato’s Retreat, the controversial, first-ever swingers club. In New York’s conservative Upper West Side, Plato’s embraced adventurous couples who came to dance, to swim, and… to swap. It was the start of a revolution. The brainchild of Larry Levenson, the self-proclaimed “King of Swing,” Plato’s Retreat quickly emerged as the mainstay of public sex for the “me” generation, welcoming anyone and everyone. For only $35, couples checked their judgments and pedigrees at the door; debutantes got it on next to bus drivers, as movie stars gave secretaries the “starlet treatment.” For Levenson and others, Plato’s was a utopia. However, this wild party did not last. American Swing brings this enigmatic epic of excess to the screen for the first time by Directors Mathew Kaufman & Jon Hart.
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- Sales Rank: 13,352
- UPC: 876964001823
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