Swingers

Starring: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn Director: Doug Liman Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 6th December, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Closed-captioned, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Swingers is a movie released in 1996, about the lives of single, unemployed actors living in Los Angeles, California. Written by Jon Favreau & directed by Doug Liman, the movie starred Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston & Heather Graham. The characters clearly idolize the swinging lifestyle of Frank Sinatra & the Rat Pack. Filmed on location at several Hollywood nightclubs, the film increased interest in 1960s culture, Hollywood nightlife & swing music. At the end of the movie, Favreau & Graham swing dance to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Derby. Swingers   at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Swingers

For anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the Los Angeles lounge scene that was in vogue during the early & mid-1990s, heres the movie that virtually defined that brief but colourful nightlife milieu. As an added bonus, it just happens to be a very funny, observant story about love, loss & male bonding among a group of friends who struggle to find decent jobs by day, & lurk through Hollywoods hottest nightclubs by night. A sort of latter-day Rat Pack, they include Mike & his closest buddy, Trent , who are waiting for the big show-biz break that seems to be eluding them. Mikes twisted up about the girlfriend he left back East to pursue his going-nowhere standup comedy career, & Trent uses the word money as an adjective with such frequency that you may find yourself slipping into lounge-lizard mode after watching the movie. One of the most noteworthy indie-film success stories of the 90s, Swingers is a time-capsule comedy that seized its moment in the spotlight, launched several promising careers & continues to maintain its lasting appeal.

Jon Favreau was born on 19 October 1966 in Queens, New York. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science & attended Queens College & worked on Wall Street before moving to Chicago to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. While in Chicago, Favreau landed his first film role, as the pudgy tutor D-Bob in the sleeper hit Rudy. Favreau would meet Vince Vaughn -who also played a role in this film- during the shooting of this film. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he made his breakthrough in 1996 as an actor-screenwriter with the film Swingers - a film that certainly was money & which also brought Vaughn much fame as the glib & over-confident Trent Walker, a perfect foil to Favreaus heartbroken Mike Peters. Since then, his credits have included Very Bad Things, Daredevil & Love & Sex, co-starring Famke Janssen. He also played a guest role in the sitcom Friends. In 2001, he made his directorial debut with another self-penned screenplay, Made. Posters Of Swingers

Editors Choice: Made, Swingers, The Big Empty, Love And Sex, View DVDology

Vince Vaughn is an American actor. He grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. Once he had obtained a television commercial early in his acting career, he felt for sure that his star was on the rise & he moved to Hollywood, only to face rejection after rejection. He finally got a speaking role in the movie Rudy in 1993. It was while filming Rudy that he met Jon Favreau, who was working on the original draft for his movie Swingers. He wrote Vaughn into the film & it became Vaughns breakthrough role. Jurassic Park. From there, Vaughn went on to make A Cool, Dry Place, the 1998 remake of Psycho, The Cell & Made. Posters Of Wedding Crashers

Editors Choice: Wedding Crashers, Psycho, Swingers, The Cell, Dodgeball, Prime Gig, Return To Paradise, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, View DVDology

Doug Liman is a Jewish-American film director & producer. Liman began making short films while still in junior high & studied at NYCs International Center of Photography. While attending Brown University, he helped to co-found the student-run cable television station & served as its first station manager. Liman attended the graduate program at USC where he was tapped to helm his first project, the comedy thriller Getting In/Student Body. Liman became attached to direct Swingers when its screenwriter Jon Favreau turned down offers from studios who wanted to cast established actors. The director agreed to cast Favreau & his friends in this comedy about struggling actors amid the L,A. club milieu. The result was a $250,000 dialogue propeled film filled with energy & charm that captivated audiences & critics & not only established a cult following, but also jump-started the careers of the featured actors, most notably Vaughn. Artful, smart & exhilarating, Limans rapid-paced next effort Go more than lived up to the legacy of the acclaimed Swingers. Posters Of Swingers

Editors Choice: Go, The Bourne Identity, Swingers, View DVDology

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