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John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry's The Swimmer, adapted for the screen by Perry's wife Eleanor, is a rare, and for the most part successful, attempt at offering a Cheever story in feature-length form. Dressed only in swimming trunks throughout the film, Burt Lancaster plays a wealthy, middle-aged advertising man, embarked on a long and revelatory journey through suburban Connecticut. Lancaster
Jan 1, 1968 Wide
Apr 29, 2003
Columbia Pictures
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A resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception.
As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears.
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.
Frequently silly but oddly memorable and unsettling.
A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory.
Ned Merrill is a tragic hero for the '60s, and it's one of Lancaster's most searing performances.
An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable.
A mannerist, moody and wonderfully strange allegory of the squandered American Dream. Like a plunge into the deep end, it stings and refreshes.
Like a series of hammer-blows to the gut.
Director Frank Perry's cult favorite
The Swimmer rules. God bless Connecticut and Fairfield County.
March 26, 2007Super Reviewer
A magnetic parable that pulverizes the american dream. Burt Lancaster plays a character engulfed by existential grief, trying to reach his own paradise lost. He decides that his burden will end when he swims his way home through every of his neighbors' pools, finding fragments and glimpses of his obscure past.Though a
March 17, 2008Super Reviewer
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