| | Swingers DVD
| Category | Comedies DVDs, Recommended Movies, Essential Cinema Videos, Buddies, Mishaps, Hollywood, Big City, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nightlife | | Starring | Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham, Ron Livingston, Brooke Langton, Deena Martin | | Director | Doug Liman | | Cameo | Marty & Elayne | | Co-Producer | Jon Favreau | | Producer | Victor Simpkins |
Brooke Langton, Heather Graham, Jon Favreau, Patrick Van Horn, Ron Livingston, Vince Vaughn - Director: Doug Liman Follow a group of guys who are unemployed by day and cruise the hippest joints of Hollywood by night. They'll show you what it means to look "money," and how to get the "digits." Writer-actor Jon Favreau's debut effort is a fresh and hilarious look at friendship, good times and the pursuit of love in the '90s. This movie is money, baby! SWINGERS follows insecure Mike and smooth-talking Trent, two retro-hip showbiz wanna-bes, as they make the scene at various clubs in Hollywood and Vegas. During their martini-fueled odyssey, the duo and their buddies explore an altogether new vernacular while struggling with images of machismo, self-esteem, relationships, and, of course, sex. Lead actor Jon Favreau based the script on his and his friends' real-life Tinseltown adventures. Hauling his sentimental friend out of his postbreakup funk, a club-hopping swinger takes him on a hilarious odyssey through the dating game of the 1990s, hitting the Vegas strip, fashionable martini lounges, and other modern hunting grounds of the opposite sex. Theatrical release: October 18, 1996.
Jon Favreau appeared on an episode of THE SOPRANOS playing himself; Christopher talks to him about the making of SWINGERS and hands the actor-writer a script.
Marty & Elayne appear as themselves at the Dresden, a gig they have had for many, many years.
Produced by Independent Pictures.
Color by DeLuxe.
Shown at the Telluride Film Festival September 1, 1996.
Shown at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.
Additional cast: Deena Martin, Katherine Kendall, Brooke Langton and Blake Lindsley.
Additional credits: Julianne Kelley (music supervisor), Brad Halvorson (production designer), Genevieve Tyrrell (costume designer), Bradford L. Schlei & Avram Ludwig (associate producers) and Nicole Shay LaLoggia (line producer). Swingers Quotes/Excerpts: "You're money."--phrase bandied about among the friends Swingers Reviews: "...Sweet and funny....SWINGERS is a winningly confident snapshot of the nightlives of a bunch of young showbiz wannabes....Engaging, refreshingly human in its humor and becomingly modest in its aspirations..."-- Todd McCarthy, Variety "...A guy film that gives you something to latch onto....Ruefully funny and unpretentious, with an air of relaxed and confident hipness, SWINGERS is helped along by a clever script and the not surprising fondness it feels for its characters..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "...The movie is sweet, funny, observant and goofy..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "Favreau's script crackles with sharply amusing, endlessly quotable dialogue..."
-- Andrew Sumner, Uncut "Liman's very quotable debut offsets its outer hipness with a compassion for its characters' vulnerabilities."
-- Matthew Leyland, Sight and Sound "...Writing, directing and acting are all pitch-perfect in a party movie that keeps spinning funny, sexy and touching surprises..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...Terrific....[Liman scores] from Favreau's exuberantly witty script....[Vaughn is] a scene-stealer..." -- Rating: A
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
This is the only Deena Martin video. Swingers | List Price | $14.99 (You save $7.24) | | Studio | Buena Vista Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1996 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2152  | | CD Universe Part number | 3909585 | | Catalog number | 2790403 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 24, 2002 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | For language, nudity, and adult themes | | Running Time | 96 Minutes | | Additional Info | Collector's Edition; Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Digitally Mastered; Letter Boxed; Collector's Edition; Widescreen |
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I'd like to give this movie a 4.5 or so, but it's not a 5. NEways, Swingers is one hell of a movie, u can watch it numerous times and not get sick of it. Vince Vaughn is so smooth throughout that sumwhere in the middle, he's bound to become ure role model. A real funny movie, I recommend it to anyone who likes to feel good- & if u don't, I dont' know wut the hell is wrong with you, but you can watch it anyways
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Hip and hilarious -- critics and audiences alike are raving about this must-see comedy hit! It's a laugh-out-loud look at a fun group of friends who spend their days looking for work and their nights in and out of Hollywood's coolest after-hours hangouts! When the lovesick Mike (Jon Favreau -- RUDY) can't seem to shake a relationship rut, his smooth, fast-talking buddy Trent (Vince Vaughn -- THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK 2) decides he'll do whatever it takes to show Mike a good time! Whether laughing over martinis in smoky cocktail lounges ... or searching for beautiful babes on an outrageous road trip to Vegas, these young swingers are determined to rewrite the rules of modern dating! Also starring Heather Graham (AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME).
Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.85
Letterbox -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
Audio Commentary: Doug Liman - Director
Illustrated Action Commentary:
1. Jon Fafreau - Star, Vince Vaughn - Star
Documentary: MAKING IT IN HOLLYWOOD
Shorts: SWINGBLADE
Featurette:
1. WRITING THE STORY
2. GETTING SWINGERS MADE
3. SWINGERS CULTURE
4. LIFE AFTER SWINGERS
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Jon Favreau's Original Artwork Tour
Storyboards
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