Saturday, December 4, 2021

The Swimmer

 

I actually like the movie more than the John Cheever short story it's based on. This was my introduction to John Cheever a writer I'm just starting to read. Burt Lancaster plays a man in a mid life crisis. He has this "great" idea that he should swim in all of the houses around his area until he gets home. It's just you discover that his neighbors really don't like him. Some of them seem petty but the woman he had an affair with seems justified. Some of the reviews on imdb.com complained about the movie being boring but I thought it was all right. Burt Lancaster does a pretty good job as a man having a breakdown. 

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