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Swingers[Collector's] - DVD

SKU: 4785012 | Release Date: 9/24/2002

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1996
Length: 96 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Comedies
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

A knowing examination of the psyche of the modern American male, Doug Liman's debut comedy Swingers stars screenwriter Jon Favreau as the sensitive Mike, a struggling actor and stand-up comic looking for romance in the wake of the dissolution of a six-year relationship. Against his better judgment, he hits the town with his pal Trent (Vince Vaughn, in a star-making performance), a retro-hip smooth-talker who calls women "babies" and feels compelled to illustrate to Mike the error of his gentlemanly ways. First in Las Vegas and later in a series of hip L.A. nightspots, the duo and their other pals, including a guy named Sue (Patrick Van Horn), prowl for women, looking for kicks and cheap thrills. The difference is that while Trent wants sex, Mike wants love and romance. Only when he learns to simply be himself does he find what he's looking for. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Additional Features

Filmmakers' audio commentary with director Doug Liman and editor Stephen Mirrione Illustrated action commentary with Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn "Making It in Hollywood"- original documentary - Art Imitates Life: Writing the Story - Life Creates Art: Getting "Swingers" Made - Life Imitates Art: "Swingers" Culture - Art Creates Life: Life After "Swingers" The Cutting Room Floor - Director's Introduction - Golfing - The Kiss - Drunken Diners - Outtakes Reel "Swingblade" short film Dolby Digital Surround Sound Widescreen (1.85:1)- enhanced for 16x9 televisions French lanugage track

Series

Collector's Series

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. Opening Credits
2. The Rub
3. Double Down
4. Big Winners
5. Trailer Park
6. Buddies
7. Night on the Town
8. Local Hangout
9. Short-Term Relationship
10. You & Me & the Bottle Make Three
11. Lorraine
12. Late Breakfast
13. New Day, New Man
14. End Credits

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Executive Producer: Cary Woods
Co-producer: Jon Favreau
Screenwriter: Jon Favreau
Costume Designer: Genevieve Tyrell
Producer: Victor Simpkins
Sound/Sound Designer: Alan B. Samuels
Associate Producer: Bradford L. Schlei
Songwriter: Justin Reinhardt
Editor: Stephen Mirrione
Director: Doug Liman
Associate Producer: Avram Ludwig
First Assistant Director: Avram Ludwig
Line Producer: Nicole Shay LaLoggia
Production Designer: Brad Halvorson

Swingers: AMG Review
Matthew Doberman , AMG

No film better captures the mix of frustration, ennui, thrills, and hipness that characterizes working and socializing in the LA "biz" crowd, in which dynamos like Vince Vaughn's Trent and homesick East Coasters like Jon Favreau's Mikey nomadically slink from bar to bar and party to party (each in his own car, of course). Vaughn's career was born with his incredibly loose supporting role as the bright-eyed, sarcastic, eternally self-confident, and surprisingly sweet Trent. Where a lesser movie might make Trent invincible, or give him nasty feet of clay, Swingers instead reveals its superman simply to be human. That's why Swingers is so successful, both comically and dramatically: it is true not only to the surreal LA scene but also to the people who inhabit it. Swingers shows them for what they are: talented, rootless socialites in a fairyland in which they're always a few steps from stardom and a half-step from working at Starbucks. They're like young adults everywhere, only with better dialogue, snazzier lingo, and cooler shirts. Doug Liman's direction and Favreau's sharp script are both "money," though Favreau's sullen Mikey is a little too much of a whiner, one of the film's few weaknesses. It should also be said that, owing to its faithful depiction of LA, the movie is funnier once you've spent even a single evening in the city of the beautiful and unemployed. Nevertheless, Swingers is a dead-on comic snapshot that will resonate with anyone who's ever experienced the terrifying and exhilarating world of young, single adulthood. ~ Matthew Doberman, All Movie Guide

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