1996 · comedy · drama · indie
Swingers
Directed by Doug Liman1h 36m1996
After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.
Our read: Swingers (1996) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · indie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
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