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The Swimmer

7.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

259

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1968

Release Year

95 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

Keywords

upper class
midlife crisis
connecticut
swimming pool
neighbor
swimmer
disillusionment
based on short story
pool party
existential crisis
pool-hopping
psychological breakdown
psychological introspection
suburban surrealism

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 3, 2023

7
7/10

"Ned" (Burt Lancaster) has been away for a while so his neighbours are a bit surprised to see him, clad only in his trunks, swimming in their pool. After some chat with them, he discovers that barring the odd bit of terrain to cross, he can pretty much swim his way home through the pools of other ne

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Wuchak

Wuchak

June 16, 2024

7
7/10

**_Offbeat parable of self-discovery on the collapse of the “American dream”_** A somewhat confused man in swimming trunks (Burt Lancaster) travels from pool to pool in suburban Connecticut on his way home. Some of the people he comes across are played by Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Joan Rivers

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