The Swimmer (1968 film)

The Swimmer is a 1968 Technicolor American surreal drama starring Burt Lancaster with Janet Landgard and Janice Rule in featured roles. The film was written and directed by Academy Awardnominated husband and wife team of Eleanor Perry screenplay adaptation and Frank Perry director. The allegorical story is based on the 1964 short story The Swimmer by John Cheever, which appeared in the July 18, 1964 issue of The New Yorker.

As Ned travels he encounters other neighbors. He meets 20yearold Julie Janet Landgard, who used to babysit his daughter, and reveals his idea to her she joins him. Together, they have several experiences, including crashing another pool party and sipping champagne. While chatting in the forest, Julie reveals that she had a schoolgirl crush on Ned, who begins talking about how he will protect her, making plans for the two of them. Discomfited, Julie runs away.The neighborhood is full of judgmental, wellheeled people intent on oneupsmanship, and Ned continues to be confronted by reminders that his past was not always as he remembers it. ........

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