Burt, for his age, looks athletic and youthful, and every inch a star, but even the trailer makes the film look awkward, like the scene where Burt tries to pick up Joan. WTF?? Then one of the leads completely drops out of the business. Was she fucking the producer? Then it looks like Janice Rule did not rule on this one. Her scene with Burt is fake, overacted, and mannered. She should know better. She was married to Ben...add to that the weird co-directing of Frank Perry and Sidney Pollack. Was no one, particularly Sidney, helping her naturalize her phony hacting? Send in Wynn Handman....
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 12, 2023 6:08 AM |
I agree with R1 that it is a good movie, if not great. I read the story first, so I prefer that. But I do think it has merit. As my comparative studies instructor told me years ago, the theme is more about the 50s, "Silent Majority" era of people who just wanted to live in white picket fence houses, live normal lives and not worry about war anymore. But problems arise on the home front. Whether any of this will even register with millennials or GenZ is doubtful. However, just because you understand it does not mean it doesn't have worth. At least it is in color (millennials and GenZ)!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 2, 2023 3:09 AM |
Burt displays a very nice bare ass in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 2, 2023 3:12 AM |
I don't want to give too much away. It is about the psychic unraveling of a man who thinks he has it all. AND it features Joan Rivers is an (strangely miscast) cameo. It was made around the same time as The Graduate, so if you like that, you may like this. This is bleaker (but I always thought the end of The Graduate was very bleak: These two are not going to last a year.).
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 2, 2023 3:19 AM |
Roger Ebert gave it ⭐⭐⭐⭐in 1968. It feels like an extended Twilight Zone episode and feels a bit padded. The screenplay by Eleanor Perry is based on a short story by John Cheever. Seeing the film some 20 years after it was released, I was able to guess what the outcome/would be. It's still an interesting film and Lancaster is very good. I believe frank Perry was replaced by Sydney Pollack (uncredited) at some time during filming, Lancaster worked with director Pollack on 2 other films 1968s The Scalphunters and 1969s Castle Keep.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 2, 2023 3:45 AM |
I love this movie. It’s like an extended Twilight Zone episode. And Burt is extremely sexy in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 2, 2023 3:58 AM |
I saw it on one of those afternoon movie channels when I was in my 20s and I never really understood it.
Perhaps I should watch it again.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 2, 2023 4:01 AM |
I've never seen the movie, but I love the story.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 2, 2023 4:01 AM |
An odd movie with an uneven cast. I didn't get it when I saw it ages ago, but appreciated it when I saw it a few years ago. Lancaster was cast against type and it mostly works. The rest of the casting was like that. Perhaps it's the passing of time, but it isn't as annoying as most films about "troubles of the upper middle class".
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 2, 2023 4:13 AM |
Marvin Hamlisch wrote a good score (his first for a film). I especially love the dramatic music in the final scene.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 2, 2023 5:31 AM |
I always like reading the three Johns-Cheever, Updike and O’Hara.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 2, 2023 6:13 AM |
and then there's The Swimmer 2021
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 2, 2023 7:09 AM |
This jeans commercial of 1992 satirizes the story and film.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 2, 2023 5:27 PM |
OP- The backround reminds me of the field little Carrie Ingalls tumbles down in the opening and or closing of Little House On The Prairie
It's SO gay of me to notice that but I AM gay so that's alright.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 2, 2023 5:29 PM |
Janet Landgard dead at 75 years old
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 12, 2023 12:47 AM |
The film is worth a watch, but it's one of those things I don't need to see again.
And if I want to look see Burt nude, he's on the Internets.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 12, 2023 2:53 AM |
R13 The top "featured review" at IMDb giving that film a 4 out of 10, says all one needs to know about that 2021 movie called "The Swimmer." I agree completely with what that person wrote.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 12, 2023 6:08 AM |
