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Summaries. A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town. Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim across the whole valley.
May 8, 2018 · The Swimmer is a decidedly quirky film, with a Twilight Zone-esque storytelling style that depicts a day in the life of Ned Merrill (Lancaster), an aging yet remarkably athletic “suburban stud ...
Sep 13, 2016 · The Swimmer is a story about disappointment on the surface. Underneath, Ned represents the death of the American Dream. Perry takes the audience on a surreal journey through the lifestyles of the rich and bored, the sort of people who only seem to complain about their hangover from last night’s binge, or talk about their material possessions.
The Swimmer, American film drama, released in 1968, that was an adaptation of John Cheever ’s allegorical short story of loss and disillusionment in suburban America. Burt Lancaster, wearing only a swimsuit throughout the movie, plays a middle-aged businessman who one day inexplicably decides to “swim home” via a trail of his neighbours’ pools.
One summer day, Ned decides to swim a series of pools between the home of his friends the Westerhazys and his own home eight miles away. He imagines the string of pools as a river, a...
1h 35m. IMDb RATING. 7.6 /10. 14K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 2:43. 2 Videos. 99+ Photos. Drama. A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town. Directors. Frank Perry. Sydney Pollack. Writers. Eleanor Perry. John Cheever. Stars. Burt Lancaster. Janet Landgard. Janice Rule.
At the beginning of the story, Neddy ’s life seems wonderful: he and his wife, Lucinda, are sitting around his neighbor’s pool on a glorious summer day, and he’s so happy that he wants to “gulp into his lungs the components of that moment.”
