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The Swimmer
Ned Merrill is a wealthy, middle-aged man. He decides to travel from swimming pool to swimming pool so he must confront several women who have complex relationships with him.
1 January 1940, Williston Park, New York, USA
9 September 1916, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
12 November 1922, Detroit, Michigan, USA
8 June 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1931, Norwood, Ohio, USA
2 October 1917, New York City, New York, USA
2 September 1919, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 October 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2 December 1947, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, USA
26 April 1913, Brooklyn, New York, USA
17 December 1902, Texas, USA
9 June 1935, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 30, 2007
Frequently silly but oddly memorable and unsettling.
June 01, 2003
An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable.
May 09, 2005
As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears.
October 08, 2001
Like a series of hammer-blows to the gut.
April 01, 2014
As effectively as almost any movie ever made about American suburbia, The Swimmer gets the contentment that comes with material success[...] And it gets how the fantasy is hard to sustain.
June 24, 2006
A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory.
March 24, 2014
Beautifully shot and executed, the effort is generous with disturbing, puzzling behavior, yet wise enough to provide clear clues to aid interpretation.
October 23, 2004
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.
October 11, 2005
Ned Merrill is a tragic hero for the '60s, and it's one of Lancaster's most searing performances.
October 30, 2007
A resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception.
May 24, 2003
A mannerist, moody and wonderfully strange allegory of the squandered American Dream. Like a plunge into the deep end, it stings and refreshes.
