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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 13, 1984 |
Starring:
Christine Lahti, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Goldie Hawn, Holly Hunter, Kurt Russell, Lisa Pelikan, Patty Maloney, Sudie Bond, Susan Peretz
Summary:
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
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Hawn, atypically cast and supported by all-round excellent performances, proves that she can act. But still this bitter-sweet concoction is very much Demme's: not only in the warming celebration of friendship and community values (the unsentimental generosity extended towards the characters positively glows), but also in the assured handling of period, place, music and mood.
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Swing Shift has neither enough laughs nor enough sobs. [23 Apr 1984, p.80]
Its elaborate and meticulously re-created period settings and moods prove far more interesting and diverting than the undernourished characterizations and love stories that flutter and sputter across the foregrounds. [19 Apr 1984, p.D6]
It offers a Life-magazine view of the home front, with adultery added--but the adultery is so unimpassioned that it might have come from Life, too. [30 Apr 1984, p.87]
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