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Synopsis. Hunter, a young woman from a lower-working-class family, has recently married Richie, a man from a wealthy family who is set to take over as CEO of his father's Manhattan corporation. This affords Hunter the ability to stay at home in the couple's lavish upstate New York home. Despite this, Hunter finds herself emotionally stifled and ...
- Swallow Plot Synopsis
- Swallow Ending: What Happens to Hunter?
- Why Does Hunter Swallow Inconsumable objects?
- Is Hunter’s Condition Cured?
‘Swallow’ follows Hunter, a young woman who has recently married into a wealthy family. She tries her best to be the loving homemaker to her husband Richie, who is preparing to take over his father’s business. However, Hunter feels neglected by Richie, and a general sense of unhappiness looms over her as she tries to seek attention from her husband...
Hunter undergoes another surgery to remove the screwdriver. After learning they plan to admit her to a psychiatric hospital, she ends up running away from Richie and his family. Hunter calls Richie and expresses her unhappiness and dissatisfaction over their marriage. Richie tries to convince her to return but insults her when she refuses. Later, H...
Much of the movie focuses on Hunter’s internal emotional conflicts. On a surface level, her impulse of swallowing inconsumable objects seems unrelated to these conflicts. However, on closer inspection, we realize that the two are closely connected. Hunter finds herself trapped in an unwanted life. She is unhappy but is unable to do anything about i...
In the end, Hunter is finally free from the burdens of her past life and unhappiness. She seems to have resolved her emotional conflicts and is moving into a new chapter of her life. Does that mean her ailment is cured? Or will she continue to swallow inconsumable objects that can be harmful to her? While we’d truly like to believe that the resolut...
Mar 6, 2020 · Movie Nation. Mar 4, 2020. There’s a touch of “The Invisible Man” to this unsettling story of the misery of being married to a cruel control freak. But “Swallow,” for all its People Magazine psychoanalysis, is harrowing in different ways and gripping in its myopia. All Hunter has is this mania for “control” of one thing in her ...
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- Carlo Mirabella-Davis
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Our review: Parents say: ( 1 ): Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Swallow boasts a superb central performance from Bennett as Hunter. Despite showing little reaction or emotion behind her doll-like facade, each twitch of the mouth or movement of the eyeballs suggests feelings trapped within, and a sense of inevitability bubbling just below ...
- Carlo Mirabella-Davis
- Kat Halstead
- Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'hare
Oct 22, 2019 · Swallow premiered at Tribeca and showed this week at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and represents the debut of Carlo Mirabella-Davis. It’s an unmistakably feminist film, although we won’t spoil exactly why. Bennett stars as Hunter, a young woman newly married to a wealthy douchebag named Richie (Austin Stowell), She is being groomed for a ...
Mar 10, 2020 · Even though Swallow is not a period piece -- Hunter plays a Candy Crush-esque cell phone game as she waits for Richie to return home -- Bennett and Mirabella-Davis wanted the initial design to ...
May 5, 2019 · Camera (color, widescreen): Katelin Arizmendi. Editor: Joe Murphy. Music: Nathan Halpern. With: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell , Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, Denis O'Hare. A modern housewife ...
