Plot
A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
Cast
as Ned Merrill
as Julie Ann Hooper
as Shirley Abbott
as Donald Westerhazy
as Peggy Forsburgh
as Mrs. Halloran
as Howie Hunsacker
as Sylvia Finney
as Ticket Seller
as Betty Graham
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Reviews
"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 much swim his way home through the pools of other neighbours/friends/acquaintances - a river and even a public lido... The film now follows him as this…
**_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 played by Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Joan Rivers and Diana Muldaur, amongst several others. "The Swimmer" (1968) is a semi-surreal commentary o…