Dir: Frank Perry
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Kim Hunter, Joan Rivers.
95 mins

“You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.”

Director Frank Perry and screenwriter Eleanor Perry expanded upon John Cheever’s 1964 short story to follow Ned Merrill, portrayed by Burt Lancaster in a piercing character study, on a whimsical, increasingly metaphysical journey home via the backyard swimming pools of suburban Connecticut. As Merrill wades through a series of unnerving encounters with women, a steadily darkening portrait of American dreams deferred begins to emerge. With music by Marvin Hamlisch and featuring Janice Rule, Kim Hunter, and Joan Rivers in her acting debut.

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