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From " Veronica Mars " to Rebecca take a look back at the career of Armie Hammer on and off the screen. See the full gallery. Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone The Swimmer that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim across the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story. What can you say about the swimmer that hasn't already been said. On reflection you have to feel sorry for Ned Merrill, certainly you can't have any sympathy for any of the characters he meets on his way! If he has suffered some sort of mental breakdown the question is why? This movie was set in the civilized environment of New England, Connecticut to be precise and it The Swimmer the cozy drinks around the swimming pool and lavish dinner party Scean that is part and parcel of American culture. The Swimmer perplexing to me that people would put so much expenditure and effort in putting in The Swimmer pool something that you can only use in The Swimmer England for about months of the year. Although in the Bizwangers case they added a sliding roof whereby at least they could use the pool all year round! However The Swimmer real reason for a pool in New England is to have your friends around, show off your pool and drink and eat to excess. However you can't be satisfied with that, in addition you have to have a pig roast with professional caterers and bar tenders to boot with a band playing in the back ground, thats real living. Material possessions are not just something to show off but The Swimmer part of what is required to achieve status, without status in the US you have achieved nothing. So how did Ned Merrill find himself in this predicament? In The Swimmer conversation with Julie Ann Hooper he recalls that while on a transatlantic ship down in steerage he saw his wife to be, up in first class, he climbed over the barriers wooed her with his charm and that was the beginning of a whirlwind romance. So Ned Merrill found the inside track to achieve high social status. Next comes the huge wedding no expense spared, the The Swimmer house and soon the family. Status is not just 6 figure salary, but the house, the cars, the family, the job, throwing wild parties and being a member of an influential committee that's doing charity work. At one scene at the Graham's Betty says to her husband "I wish we couldm travel more! That just sums up the attitude that the whole world evolves around their neighborhood. It epitomizes the culture of contentment and it's world of self importance. Yet Ned Merills found to his cost that when his wife left him, or threw him out he found that everything else became very imbalanced and just like a The Swimmer of cards once one falls the rest all comes down. Well you can figure out all of the sordid scenarios in sequence, many reviewers have tried but the bottom line is that your life and status can nose- dive into a downward spiral with marriage and work upheaval i. For people who live in such circles this must be their worst nightmare because you lose one you can lose it all. How do you adjust to such a The Swimmer change! In Ned Merrills case he became so obsessed in pursuing his American dream and totally absorbed in what he regarded as important that he fell into a state The Swimmer self-propelling delusion. Shallow, selfish people who put so much emphasis on status and material possessions as a sign of success find it hard to cope with such misfortunes. Why didn't Neddy just pack his bags The Swimmer move to the west coast and start again? He can't, partly because of his pride and the The Swimmer that he was handed a lot probably makes it all the more harder. But the answer to the question is that he was conditioned to believe The Swimmer a certain way and that without all of the above he was nothing, and he The Swimmer accept it? All in all Ned Merill made things worse for himself, nothing to fall back on, nothing for a rainy The Swimmer safe deposit box full of gold Krugerrands or cash. He threw everything into his lifestyle took himself too seriously and found very little sympathy from former friends, colleagues and acquaintances when the tide turned! Burt Lancaster was proud of this movie and so he should. His performance is very believable, he exuded confidence, happiness and the American spirit. Interestingly at the beginning of the movie he in no way portrayed a middle aged man on skid row which makes the ending even more disturbing when you see the state of him at The Swimmer end. It could happen to the best of us, Was this what Cheever was trying to portray? Looking for something to The Swimmer Choose an The Swimmer below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit The Swimmer What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track The Swimmer everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. The Swimmer man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet The Swimmer town. Directors: Frank PerrySydney Pollack uncredited. Writers: Eleanor Perry screenplayJohn Cheever story. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. The Evolution of Armie Hammer. Burt Lancaster. Share this Rating Title: The Swimmer 7. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Burt Lancaster Ned Merrill The Swimmer Landgard Julie Hooper Janice Rule Shirley Abbott Tony Bickley Donald Westerhazy Marge Champion Peggy Forsburgh Nancy Cushman Halloran Bill Fiore Howie Hunsacker David Garfield Ticket Seller as John The Swimmer Jr. Kim Hunter Betty Graham Rose Gregorio Sylvia Finney Charles Drake Howard Graham Bernie Hamilton Chauffeur House Jameson Halloran Jimmy Joyce Jack Finney Michael Kearney Edit Storyline Neddy Merrill has been away for The Swimmer of the Summer. Taglines: When you talk about "The Swimmer" will you talk about yourself? Genres: Drama. Edit Did The Swimmer Know? The Swimmer Burt Lancaster always insisted that this was both his best and his favorite film of his career. Goofs Julie's hair goes from brushed to windblown and back again several times in the same sequence. Quotes [ first lines ] Donald Westerhazy : Where have you been keeping yourself? Ned Merrill : Oh, here and there. Here and there. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. The Swimmer (film) - Wikipedia

The water is cool and fresh, and The Swimmer day is The Swimmer. As he has a drink with his friends, it occurs to him that a string of other backyard pools reaches all the way across the valley to his own home. Why not swim every one -- swim all the way home, as it were? This sounds like a glorious adventure, and indeed it starts but that way. He even meets a lovely girl who agrees to come along on the journey. Some of the pool owners are happy to see him. Others hate him. One is a bitter young woman who loved him once. We learn something about this man's life at every poolside, until finally we are able to piece together a story of his disgrace and failure. But somewhere along the way we realize it is an allegory, and the ending makes that clear. It is also a very stylized film. As the swimmer Burt Lancaster pauses beside each pool, his conversations with the owners sound real enough, and yet somehow they are very stiff, very correct, as if everybody were reading lines or this were a The Swimmer. The photography contributes to this feeling. The Swimmer is beautiful, but not joyful. It has the same nostalgia as " Elvira Madigan " or the snapshots in an old photo album. At every moment, we have the feeling that something tragic has already happened to these people we see smiling. And, of course, something has. Like assorted characters by John Updike and J. Salinger, The Swimmer swimmer is a tragic hero disguised as an upper-class suburbanite. There are a lot of tragic heroes hidden in suburbia, I guess, perhaps because so many of The Swimmer subscribe to the New Yorker. You are what you read. One interesting thing about "The The Swimmer is that it manages so successfully to reproduce the feeling of a short story in the The Swimmer of film. It is a very literary movie, and by that I don't mean the characters The Swimmer around talking to each other a lot. The film episodes are put The Swimmer in a rather formal way, like a well-made short story, and there is none of the fluid movement The Swimmer scenes that you usually expect in movies. The movement of the film is from morning to dusk, from sunshine to rain, from youth to age and from fantasy to truth. It would also appear that the swimmer's experiences are not meant to represent a single day, but a man's life. What we really have here, then, is a sophisticated retelling of the oldest literary form of all: the epic. A hero sets off on a journey. He has many strange adventures along the way, during which he learns the tragic nature of life. At last he arrives at his goal, The Swimmer and wiser and with many a tale to tell. Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest The Swimmer. In addition to being a The Swimmer actor, he is a plausible hero of the Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas type. And a hero is needed here. We must believe in the swimmer's greatness if we are to find his fate tragic. There are also fine performances The Swimmer Janice Rule previously buried in Matt Helms and Westerns The Swimmer the mistress, by Janet Landgardas the young girl, and by a host of character actors. The screenplay and direction are by Eleanor and Frank Perryrespectively, and they are the same couple who made "David and Lisa. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in Inhe won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Kim Hunter as Barry Graham. Burt Lancaster The Swimmer Ned Merrill. Janet Landgard as Julie Hooper. Marge Champion as Peggy Forsburgh. Janice Rule as Shirley Abbott. Tony Bickley as Westerhazy. Nancy Cushman as Mrs. Reviews The Swimmer. Roger Ebert July 02, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. The Swimmer playing. Coastal Elites Christy Lemire. Ava Matt Zoller Seitz. Dreaming Grand Avenue The Swimmer Daniels. Nocturne Nick Allen. Love and Monsters Nick Allen. Film Credits. Quaid Directed by Frank Perry. Latest blog posts. The Swimmer by John Cheever – into a suburban darkness | Books | The Guardian

On a sunny day in an affluent suburb in Connecticuta fit and tanned middle-aged man in a bathing suit, Ned Merrill, drops by a pool party being held by old friends. They offer him a cocktail while nursing hangovers from the night before. As they share stories, Ned realizes there is a series of backyard swimming pools that could form a "river" back to his house, making it possible The Swimmer him to "swim his way home". Ned dives into the pool, emerging at the other end and beginning his journey. Ned's behavior perplexes his friends, who apparently know worrisome things about his recent past which he seems to have forgotten. As Ned travels, he encounters other neighbors. He meets year-old Julie, who used to babysit The Swimmer daughters whom he repeatedly refers to as "at home playing tennis "and reveals his plan The Swimmer her; she joins him. They crash another pool party and sip champagne. While chatting in a grove of trees, Julie reveals that she had a schoolgirl crush on Ned. After she tells him about two incidents of sexual harassment in her workplace, Ned begins talking about how he will protect her, making plans for the two of them. Discomfited by his intimate approaches, Julie runs away. Ned meets a wealthy older couple, unbothered by his eccentric behavior but also unimpressed by his The Swimmer. He then encounters Kevin, a lonely young boy, whom he tries to teach how to swim. They use an abandoned, empty pool, which Ned urges the boy to imagine is filled with water. The boy warms to this method, and soon is "swimming" the length of the empty pool. As Ned takes his leave, he glances back and sees the boy bouncing on the diving board over the deep end of the empty pool. He rushes back to remove him from the diving board, then departs. Ned fails to make more than a superficial connection with the people he meets, being obsessed with The Swimmer journey, and becoming increasingly out of The Swimmer with reality. The neighborhood consists of judgmental, well-heeled people intent on one-upmanshipand Ned is confused by hints that his life might not be as untroubled as he believes. Ned walks into another party where the hostess calls him a "party crasher". He encounters a bubbly girl named Joan, who does not know him. Ned asks her to join him, and Joan is intrigued until his speech becomes more fantastical. A friend leads The Swimmer away from him. Ned jumps into the pool, making a big splash which grabs the attention of the guests. When he emerges from the water, he notices a hot dog cart that used to be his. Ned gets into a spat with the homeowner, who claims to have bought it at a white elephant sale. Ned shows up at the backyard pool of Shirley Abbott, a stage actress with whom he had an affair several years earlier. His warm memories of their time together contrast with her own experience of being "the other woman". Unable to reconcile his feelings with the pain he caused, Ned wades into the deep end of The Swimmer pool. Ned trudges barefoot alongside a busy highway, then reaches a crowded public swimming pool. After being treated demeaningly by the gatekeeper, he encounters a group of local The Swimmer owners who derisively ask him "How do you like our water? When some of them make vicious comments about his wife's snobbish tastes and his out-of-control daughters' recent troubles with the law, Ned flees. The skies The Swimmer and rain begins The Swimmer. Amid a The Swimmer at sunset, a shivering, limping Ned staggers home; the tennis court where his daughters were supposedly playing is in disrepair, and his house is locked and deserted, with several windows broken. Anguished, Ned repeatedly tries to open the door, before slumping to the ground The Swimmer the doorway. The Swimmer was The Swimmer by Sam Spiegela three-time Academy Award for Best Picture winner, who ultimately removed his name from the film although the logo of his company, Horizon Pictures, remains. It was filmed largely on location in Westport, Connecticuthometown of director Frank Perry. Although he was a trained athlete, star Burt Lancaster had a fear of the water, and took swimming lessons from former Olympian and UCLA water polo coach Bob Horn to prepare for the film. According to Rivers, Lancaster and Frank Perry had several confrontations The Swimmer the set. Perry was ultimately The Swimmer by Spiegel sometime after the first cut of the film was screened. The producers then brought in Lancaster's friend, the young director Sydney Pollackto salvage the project. Pollack reportedly reshot several transitions and scenes, including redoing the Shirley Abbott scene, with Janice Rule now playing the part originally played by Barbara Loden. The score was composed by a first-time film composer, year-old [6] Marvin HamlischThe Swimmer was orchestrated by The Swimmer Shuken and Jack Hayes. The music has dramatic passages for a small orchestra along with a mids pop sound. The initial box office response to the film was "lackluster" [12] but the critical response has improved in The Swimmer years, with the movie gaining cult film status. It is a grim, disturbing and sometimes funny view of a very small, very special segment of upper-middle-class American life. Its detractors will be most vocal; its supporters will not have high-powered counter-arguments. After the film's restoration and re-release by Grindhouse Releasing inBrian Orndorf of Blu-ray. The Swimmer was originally released on DVD in The release received positive reviews, with Blu-ray. The Swimmer have taken a previously rare, and quite obscure, title and given it the special edition treatment that its fans have long dreamt of. Extras on the release include a five-part documentary, The Story of the Swimmerwhich includes comments from surviving production and cast members including Janet LandgardJoan Rivers The Swimmer, Marge Championfirst and second assistant directors Michael Hertzberg and Ted The SwimmerBob Hornas well as Lancaster's daughter Joanna, and archival interviews with composer Marvin Hamlisch and editor The Swimmer Katz. It's an exhaustive documentary, but there's never a dull moment. Also included in the release are title sequence outtakes, The Swimmer Perry's storyboards, production stills including Loden's deleted scenetrailers, TV spots, an audio recording of Cheever reading the original short story, as well as a page color booklet with essays by filmmaker Stuart Gordon and Innis. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release poster. Horizon Pictures. Release The Swimmer. Running time. Halloran Nancy Cushman as Mrs. Marvin The Swimmer. September 13, Film Inquiry. 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