Story Line
A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
“When you talk about "The Swimmer" will you talk about yourself?”
Top Cast
Burt Lancaster
Ned Merrill
Janet Landgard
Julie Ann Hooper
Janice Rule
Shirley Abbott
Tony Bickley
Donald Westerhazy
Marge Champion
Peggy Forsburgh
Nancy Cushman
Mrs. Halloran
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Rating
7.3/ 10
Release Date
1968-08-09
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (3)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/3/2023"Ned" (Burt Lancaster) has been away for a while so his neighbours are a bit surprised to see him, clad only in his trunks, swimming in their pool. After some chat with them, he discovers that barring the odd bit of terrain to cross, he can pretty mu...
Wuchak
7/10
•6/16/2024**_Offbeat parable of self-discovery on the collapse of the “American dream”_**
A somewhat confused man in swimming trunks (Burt Lancaster) travels from pool to pool in suburban Connecticut on his way home. Some of the people he comes across are p...
Abstractals
No rating•4/6/2026
Burt Lancaster referred to this film as ""**'Death of a Salesman'** in swimming trunks,"" and that's not a bad characterization. You could also think of it, in many ways, as ""**'American Beauty'** in the late 1960s.""
This movie came out nine ye...