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Swing Shift is a 1984 American romantic drama directed by Jonathan Demme, and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn, with Kurt Russell. It also features Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris and Holly Hunter, in one of her earlier movie roles. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $6.6
Apr 13, 1984 · Swing Shift: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward. A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
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Swing Shift is about women who find friendship and empowerment while working at an aircraft factory during World War II. Hawn plays Kay, who is a homemaker happily married to Jack (Ed Harris).
Girl gets husband, girl loses husband, girl gets job. That's basically what happens in "Swing Shift," a sentimental memory of World War II, when men went to war and their wives and sweethearts manned the production lines. This is a slice-of-life movie, the kind that director Jonathan ("Melvin and Howard") Demme is good at.
Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Goldie Hawn ("The First Wives Club," "Private Benjamin") stars in this nostalgic romantic comedy as a demure World War II housewife whose ...
During World War II, a navy wife helps the war effort by taking a job in the local aircraft factory, where she meets a man declared unfit for...
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A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war. Jack and Kay Walsh are typical of many couples of the 1940s, where he is the breadwinner and she the housewife dependent upon him to do the man's duties around the house.
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers.
Swing Shift (1984) 1984 USA Directed by Jonathan Demme Produced by Jerry Bick Written by Rob Morton, Ron Nyswaner, Bo Goldman, Nancy Dowd ... British Film Institute.
