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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FAVREAU,JOHN
EAN: 0786936197679
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 5808
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1996
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Description:
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).
Amazon.com:
For anyone who wants to catch a glimpse of the Los Angeles 'lounge' scene that was in vogue during the early and mid-1990s, here's the movie that virtually defined that brief but colorful nightlife milieu. As an added bonus, it just happens to be a very funny, observant story about love, loss, and male bonding among a group of friends who struggle to find decent jobs by day, and lurk through Hollywood's hottest nightclubs by night. A sort of latter-day Rat Pack, they include Mike (writer-actor Jon Favreau) and his closest buddy, Trent (Vince Vaughn), who are waiting for the big show-biz break that seems to be eluding them. Mike's twisted up about the girlfriend he left back East to pursue his going-nowhere standup comedy career, and Trent uses the word 'money' as an adjective ('Man, we look totally money tonight') 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, this time-capsule comedy seized its moment in the spotlight, launched several promising careers, and continues to maintain its lasting appeal. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - You're So Money, and You Don't Even Know It!
Trent Walker (Vince Vaughn), Sue (Patrick Van Horn), Rob (Ron Livingston), Charles (Alex Désert), and Mike Peters (Jon Favreau) are all struggling actors. Their social scene and lifestyle is totally retro, based on the days when Frank, Sammy, and Dean ruled Vegas. They have their own style of dress, lingo, and attitude--but all recycled from the days of Frank, Sammy, and Dean-O. Their scene, The Cocktail Nation, flourished for a while in the mid 90's. The script was written by Jon Favreau, who plays Mikey, and it was based on their own struggles in Hollywood. Some of Vince Vaughn's best lines were things he said verbatim in real life that were transcribed by Jon Favreau, who wrote the script. Like, there is a great scene where Trent Walker regales some Vegas waitresses with tales of his auditions. It is a bravura performance, where he describes a casting call where he tried out for the part of the 11-year old big brother in an after school special. Though he had everyone in tears with his dramatic reading, they rejected him because of his age. This was something Vince Vaughn came up with spontaneously, a story of his own trials and tribulations, but Jon Favreau had the good sense to write it all down, and somehow they were able to get the script shot with themselves in it. How money is that?
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Trent: All I do is stare at their mouths and wrinkle my nose, and I turn out to be a sweetheart.
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Rating: - amazing movie
this is an amazing movie seen it a dozen times finally had to buy it
Rating: - I'll get you Favreau, if it's the last thing I do!!!!!!!!
Jon Favreau (the writer and director of Swingers, Iron Man, Elf, etc.), is basically me. He's semi-geeky, witty, and likes to place himself in the false reality of thinking he's more of a ladies man than he truly is. It's all over his films, and Swingers is no exception.
In Swingers, we have a group of late-twenties friends, led by their alpha-male chieftain Trent (played by Vince Vaughn in perhaps his greatest role to date), who is in the process of trying to get "Mikey" (played by Favreau) back in the game relationally after a bad breakup with his girlfriend six months before. Mikey is resistant at first, and drops the ball multiple times in some of the funniest attempted land-a-date sequences I've ever witnessed, but eventually and predictably for the silver-lining Favreau, comes around with in the finale of the film.
But my bone to pick lies here, as it did with Favreau's role in 'Love and Sex', is that he has almost delcared himself the "lovable underdog" type. We get it, Jon-boy, you're the sweetest little tool in town and the woman, once they get to know you, adore you. I mean, look at women he ends up with in the two romantic comedies he's done...
Heather Graham * Swingers
Famke Janssen * Love and Sex
I'll just come right out and say it: his films, while they are hilariously witty, leave me depressed during those aftertaste portions a few hours after the credits roll on. Why you ask? Simple: because guys like me and Favreau DO NOT end up with Heather Grahams or Famke Janssens. We end up with ... Read More
Rating:  - A guy's movie for everyone
Although this movie is often described as a guy's movie, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a relationship movie from a guys perspective like one of my other indie favorites, Time and Tide. Both of the main characters are great and keep it interesting throughout. I highly recommend this film!
Rating: - One of the great guy movies
Yeah, the guys in this movie act pretty shallow. They're pretty much interested in going to random parties and picking up girls while all of their careers are in the fritz. While not exactly a primer on how to live one's life, the comradery between the characters is something to really shows depth.
The opening song "You're nobody until somebody loves you", sets the theme. The story revolves around Mikey, who left for Los Angeles leaving his girlfriend of five years behind. His friends are trying to get him out of his funk, and teach him how to live again, without her. This leads to an attempt at seduction that leads to him crying about his ex, an hilarious pep talk at a bar "you're a f&*^ing bear man!", and a disturbing string of phone calls that will leave anyone cringing.
There's definately a been there, done that feeling to the movie. At some point or another most of us felt like Mikey, trying to reclaim who they are after someone leaves out lives. It deals with being confident for being who you are, and taking the pain and becoming better. It's essentially summed up with the following dialogue.
Rob: Sometimes it still hurts. You know how it is, man. It's like, you wake up every day and it hurts a little bit less, and then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt at all. And the funny thing is, is that, this is kinda wierd, but it's like, it's like you almost miss that pain.
Mike: You miss the pain?
Rob: Yeah, for the same reason that you missed her... because you lived with it for so long. ... Read More
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