The Swimmer
- Original title
- The Swimmer
- Year
- 1968
- Running time
- 95 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Eleanor Perry. Story: John Cheever
- Cast
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- Burt Lancaster
- Janice Rule
- Janet Landgard
- Marge Champion
- Kim Hunter
- Charles Drake
- Tony Bickley
- Bill Fiore
- Nancy Cushman
- David Garfield
- Rose Gregorio
- Bernie Hamilton
- House Jameson
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Swimming. Psychological Drama
- Synopsis
- Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friends pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story.
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- Critics' reviews
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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."
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"An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable."
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"A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory."
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