Swimmers (film)

Swimmers is a 2005 American independent drama about a watermans family on Chesapeake Bays eastern shore. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2005, and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best New American Film from the Seattle International Film Festival. The title and theme of the film were inspired by the Latin name for the Chesapeake Bays indigenous Maryland blue crab Callinectes sapidus Callinectes translates as beautiful swimmers.

Grounded, literally, from her favorite pastime, swimming, Emma is forced to look for alternative ways to pass those lazy summer days. When no one seems to be very interested in talking to Emma, she finds friendship with a troubled young woman, Merrill, who has returned to town looking to deal with her past. The sweetly innocent Emma allows the worldweary Merrill in some ways to reconnect with her own lost innocence, while Merrill, for her part, provides an oasis for Emma, who feels invisible at home in the eyes of her struggling parents. Added to this volatile mix of domestic strife is a love story desperately trying to emerge between Merrill and one of Emmas older brothers Clyde. However, Merrills ugly past and pathologic need to be used threatens to resurface and destroy her newfound sense of purity.Will and Julia love their daughter immensely, but suffer from the financial woes of a poor fishing season, the sudden loss of Wills boat and Wills fierce pride in not having to ask for handouts. ........

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