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By Gareth S (60) on 05 Apr 2008

Burt Lancaster plays suburbanite- businessman Ned Merrill in a wonderfully delirious emotional puzzle of a picture based on a short story by…

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By Jamie H (300) on 29 Mar 2008

The deconstruction of a man whose life starts out swimmingly. Haunting film. Well done…

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By Jeff R (513) on 24 Mar 2008

A hidden sleeper of a movie, a man's mid-life crisis manifests itself in each of his neighbours swimming pools with each pool and its inhabitants…

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By Adam R (2,773) on 14 Mar 2008

If you want different, this is the movie to see…

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By Paolo R (90) on 21 Feb 2008

A man wanders from swimming pool to swimming pool all the way home in this fantastic and often surreal film…

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By Susie H (44) on 10 Feb 2008

EXCELLENT STORY that unfolds with every pool he uninvitedly swims in…

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By Geoff G (36) on 05 Feb 2008

This movie is deliciously fucked up. From pool to pool Lancaster descends closer to the truth…

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By Gregory J (34) on 05 Feb 2008

Good innit? Analogy for all sorts of things, ageing, self deception, delusion etc…

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By Margaret M (158) on 05 Jan 2008

Oh neddy I think it's a brillant idea watched for a project, we had so much fun !even if the teacher didn't like it…

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By Jamy S (92) on 05 Jan 2008

Oh neddy I think it's a brillant idea watched for a project, we had so much fun !even if the teacher didn't like it…

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By Monique R (43) on 06 Dec 2007

Surreal story about a man swimming back to his home through his neighbor's swimming pools…

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By Vicky S (89) on 29 Nov 2007

Depressing? Definitely. Disturbing? Yep. But totally enthralling…

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By Ben C (1,824) on 26 Nov 2007

Your the captain of your own soul…

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By Dave W (540) on 26 Nov 2007

Awesome. Horribly awesome. Watch it and try not to die from laughing. It is worth owning. Why would I jump in that pool, Mister…

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By Steve P (906) on 23 Nov 2007

A tribute to Burt Lancaster's leviathantic testicles, and a sometimes-fascinating character study, based on a short story by John Cheever…

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By John D (2,323) on 15 Nov 2007

Lets go for a swim in my past and find a new future…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Oct 2007

A resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception…

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By Justin L (603) on 29 Sep 2007

A great spook out tragedy which unpacks Ned Merill's (Burt Lancaster) fall from grace in the plastic candy land of 60s boom time middle class…

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By Marcos C (60) on 18 Sep 2007

I remember my dad taking me to Spain to swim in all the pools of the hotels he sang in with Los 5 Del Este…

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By Lisa M (931) on 04 Sep 2007

Interesting film, ultimately quite sad to watch…

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