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The Swimmer
Ned Merrill is a wealthy, middle-aged man. He decides to travel from swimming pool to swimming pool so he must confront several women who have complex relationships with him.
12 November 1922, Detroit, Michigan, USA
12 June 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 October 1917, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1940, Williston Park, New York, USA
23 September 1921, Connecticut, USA
31 December 1930, Birmingham, England, UK
17 October 1934, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 May 1899, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 September 1916, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
25 July 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 October 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
18 July 1920, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1955, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
2 November 1913, New York City, New York, USA
21 August 1930, New York City, New York, USA
2 September 1919, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1913, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 May 1931, Pipestone, Minnesota, USA
15 August 1931, Norwood, Ohio, USA
19 August 1938, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
27 May 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
9 November 1933, New York City, New York, USA
June 01, 2003
An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable.
October 08, 2001
Like a series of hammer-blows to the gut.
October 30, 2007
Frequently silly but oddly memorable and unsettling.
May 24, 2003
A mannerist, moody and wonderfully strange allegory of the squandered American Dream. Like a plunge into the deep end, it stings and refreshes.
October 23, 2004
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.
October 11, 2005
Ned Merrill is a tragic hero for the '60s, and it's one of Lancaster's most searing performances.
October 30, 2007
A resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception.
April 01, 2014
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.
March 24, 2014
Beautifully shot and executed, the effort is generous with disturbing, puzzling behavior, yet wise enough to provide clear clues to aid interpretation.
May 09, 2005
As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears.
June 24, 2006
A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory.
