THE SWIMMER
Middle-aged ad man Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) gets the notion that he can pool-hop across his wealthy suburban Connecticut neighbors' expansive yards and swim all the way back to his own split-level. But Ned's concept of "home," his self-image and the whereabouts of his loving wife and daughters turn out to be dreadfully elusive. In one of the key Hollywood films of the 1960s, Lancaster gives a bravura performance — in swimming trunks — with Ned's physical nakedness and vulnerability chiming with his emotional and mental unraveling and mysterious loss. DIR/PROD Frank Perry; SCR Eleanor Perry, from the story by John Cheever; PROD Roger Lewis. U.S., 1968, color, 95 min. RATED PG
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Run Time: 95 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, July 12, 2024
Genre: Drama