Episode 8

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10th Jun 2020

Swingers (1996 Jason’s Pick)

The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features Jason’s personal pick, influential indie comedy Swingers. Written by Jon Favreau, directed by Doug Liman and starring Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Van Horn, Alex Desert and Heather Graham, Swingers was a minor box-office success, but went on to be one of the essential movies of the ’90s indie boom.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/swingers-1996), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/11/01/swingers-2/), and Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-10-25-9610250071-story.html).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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