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www.swimmingthemovie.com
 

DVD Information and Specs
DVD RELEASE DATE: 06/08/04
ASPECT RATIO: 1.85 : 1
AUDIO: 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo
RUNNING TIME: 90 min

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Reviews
"A refreshingly authentic coming-of-age tale."
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Megan Turner, New York Post


"Remarkable and involving... It's so rare to see characters live and breath, grow and change, that this is a gift."
-Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer


"Ambrose eats up the screen ... mapping the entire range of sentiments inside a girl who's never thought herself to be attractive...""
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John Anderson, Newsday


"Ambrose has an extraordinary ability to make us like her and care for her."

-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times


It's the start of another Carolina summer, and it's becoming increasingly clear to Frankie Wheeler (Lauren Ambrose) that she wants more out of life than Myrtle Beach can offer. She spends her days working in her family's restaurant and wastes her nights hanging out on the boardwalk with her best friend, Nicola (Joelle Carter), proprietor of a piercing shop and self-proclaimed trouble seeker.

Frankie has always played sidekick to Nicola, so neither is prepared when two new arrivals, a young siren hired as a waitress (Jennifer Dundas), and a drifter selling tie-dyes out of the back of his van (Jamie Harrold), court only Frankie. Nicola's ensuing jealousy sets in motion a series of betrayals driving a wedge into their friendship and forces Frankie to take a stand for herself.


Widescreen presentation
Deleted scenes
"Afterthought": an inside look at Swimming
"Snapshot Diaries" from the Sundance Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival



GRAND JURY AWARD OUTSTANDING ACTRESS
Lauren Ambrose - LA OutFest
   

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Rotterdam International
Film Festival


TORCHLIGHT AWARD EXCELLENCE IN FILMMAKING
Robert Siegel - Woodstock Film Festival