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FILM DETAILS

Certificate PG

Cast Burt Lancaster Janet Landgard Janice Rule Tony Bickley Marge Champion Nancy Cushman

Directors Frank Perry

Screenwriters Eleanor Perry

Running Time 95 minutes

The Swimmer
Burt Lancaster, naked but for Speedo trunks, ‘swimming home’ via a river of backyard pools.

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Plot
Connecticut. Ned Merrill drops into a friend’s pool for a dip, then works out that he can swim home using his neighbour’s pools. As he gets nearer his ‘house on the hill’, it becomes obvious that there’s something seriously wrong with Ned’s apparently ideal life.

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