Bill Fiore,
Burt Lancaster,
Charles Drake,
Janet Landgard,
Janice Rule
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A middle-aged man embarks on a trek of swimming from pool to pool in his neighborhood as a way of retracing his past and coming to terms with his purpose in life.
DVD Release Date: April 29, 2003
Stats: 150 reviews
A magnetic parable that pulverizes the american dream.
Burt Lancaster plays a character engulfed by existential grief, trying to reach his own paradise lost. He decides that his burden will end when he swims his way home through every of his neighbors' pools, finding fragments a...( read more)
I am a bit surprised at the extremely high ratings for this film, it is a good film, but it is so obvious in it?s symbolism. Good performances, fine score. It?s an odd film, it held my interest but don?t see it as any better than above average.
One of the more perplexing and mind-blowing movies of the 1960s and one of Burt Lancaster's more controversial roles. The guy who goes from pool to pool on his way home but he has no home since he's ruined it with infidelity and alienating his loved ones. There is no ending but i...( read more)
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