Coordinates | 21°18′32″N157°49′34″N |
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name | The Swimmer |
director | Frank Perry Sydney Pollack |
producer | Frank Perry Roger Lewis |
writer | Eleanor Perry John Cheever (story) |
starring | Burt Lancaster Janet Landgard Janice RuleMarge ChampionKim Hunter |
music | Marvin Hamlisch |
cinematography | David L. Quaid |
editing | Sidney Katz Carl LernerPat Somerset |
studio | Horizon Pictures |
distributor | Columbia Pictures |
released | May 15, 1968 |
runtime | 95 minutes |
country | United States |
language | English |
followed by | }} |
At first Ned gets warm welcomes as he meets old friends. These are mostly upper middle-class, well-to-do people with homes in the upscale outer suburbs. However, there are hints that Ned has been away for up to two years, and he brushes off any questions about himself. Each stop brings him face to face with some aspect of his life. The first one is with his youth when anything was possible, while the last one exposes the current collapse of his family life and where everything seems lost.
As the day wears on and Ned sees those who have been closer to him more recently, the welcomes begin to sour. Ned's proud boasts about his wife, daughters and home are met with strong mixed feelings, jeers, suspicion and even anger - especially from women. In one backyard Ned meets a 20-year-old girl who, years ago, had babysat his daughters. She leaves with him, at first thrilled to do so owing to an unspoken crush she had for him in her early teens. But when Ned rather clumsily tries to woo and kiss her, she flees. He carries on with his "swim," dropping by the pools of sundry other friends as it slowly unfolds that his life has somehow gone quite wrong. He crashes a party at one pool. While he is put up with at first, Ned is thrown out when he has an outburst after spotting a hot dog wagon he had once bought for his daughters, but which had recently been sold in a white elephant sale. He then shows up at the backyard pool of Shirley Abbott, a stage actress with whom he'd had an affair several years earlier. She is still feeling bitter and hurt. When Ned tries to rekindle things, this poolside meeting ends very badly for both of them.
As the day ends, Ned winds up in a crowded public swimming pool where he runs across and is shamed by local shopkeepers to whom he still owes money for unpaid grocery and restaurant tabs. When some of them comment about his wife's overall snobbish attitude and his out-of-control daughters' recent troubles with the law, he doesn't want to hear it and angrily flees. As the sun goes down, a shivering Ned at last staggers up a rocky hill, shoves open a rusted gate and walks through an overgrown garden with an unkempt tennis court. A thunderstorm begins as Ned knocks on the front door of a locked, dark and thoroughly empty house, whereupon he breaks down on the front stoop and weeps.
The film was Janet Landgard's first featured cinematic role. It features cameos by Kim Hunter, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Joan Rivers, among others. The musical score by Marvin Hamlisch has dramatic passages for a small orchestra along with a highly generic mid-1960s pop sound.
name | The Swimmer |
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type | soundtrack |
artist | Marvin Hamlisch |
cover | SwimmerOST.jpg |
released | March 2006 |
label | Film Score Monthly |
producer | }} |
#"Theme From The Swimmer ("Send For Me In Summer") / Big Splash" 3:23 #"Easy Four / Bubbles" 3:28 #"The Dive / Don't Come Back / Slow Walk / The Horse" 4:06 #"Lucinda River / Two People" 4:13 #"Together / Hurdles" 3:42 #"Julie, Julie / The Little Flute / The Goodbye" 1:26 #"Carnival" 2:30 #"Lovely Hair" 2:34 #"Down the Steps / You Loved It / On the Road" 3:07 #"My Kids Love Me / Traveling Home / Closer to Home / Home / Marcia Funebre" 6:07 #"Theme from The Swimmer (Reprise) ("Send For Me In Summer")"
Category:1968 films Category:American films Category:Horizon Pictures films Category:Columbia Pictures films Category:1960s drama films Category:Films based on short fiction Category:English-language films Category:Films directed by Frank Perry Category:Films set in Connecticut Category:Films about suburbia Category:Swimming films Category:Films shot in Connecticut
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