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03/26/09
The Swimmer (1968)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:18
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Synopsis: Burt Lancaster stars in this adaptation of John Cheever's dreamlike short story about one man's highly unusual attempt to find meaning in his life. On the morning after a booze-filled night, Ned... [More]
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Tony Bickley
Director: Frank Perry
Reviews for The Swimmer
1 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticNo review available.
09/01/08
Frequently silly but oddly memorable and unsettling.
10/30/07
Top CriticA resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception.
10/30/07
A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory.
06/24/06
Ned Merrill is a tragic hero for the '60s, and it's one of Lancaster's most searing performances.
10/11/05
No review available.
06/13/05
As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears.
05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
03/08/05
No review available.
11/23/04
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
01/24/04
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
07/09/03
An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable.
06/01/03
Top CriticA mannerist, moody and wonderfully strange allegory of the squandered American Dream. Like a plunge into the deep end, it stings and refreshes.
05/24/03
Top CriticNo review available.
12/08/02
Like a series of hammer-blows to the gut.
10/08/01
Director Frank Perry's cult favorite
01/01/00
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