Swing Shift - temporary love

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Movie
German title Swing Shift - temporary love
Original title Swing shift
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Jonathan Demme
script Nancy Dowd
(as Rob Morton)
Ron Nyswaner
(not mentioned)
Bo Goldman
(not mentioned)
production Jerry Bick
music Patrick Williams
camera Tak Fujimoto
cut Craig McKay
Give Jaffe
occupation

Love at time - Swing Shift is an American film drama from the year 1984 .

action

With the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States enters World War II . Because of the conscription , Kay Walsh has to let her husband Jack join the United States Navy . When she saw a newsreel in the cinema a little later , which called for all women who stayed at home to be able to support their husbands by serving in the armaments industry , she volunteered with other women at the MacBride plants , where she began assembling fighter jets . There she has to assert herself against the men who have not been drafted into the war and meets her superior Lucky Lockhart, who from then on invites her to dance and drink together. But Kay keeps saying no and indicates that she is married.

After a while, however, the first news of casualties on the war front arrives , which depresses Kay as she has to watch her work colleagues tearfully learn that their beloved husbands have fallen . So she lets her friend and neighbor Hazel persuade her to get some distraction while dancing. And after seeing Lucky on stage as a trumpeter , she is surprised by his talent and lets him invite her for a drink. They spend a night of love together and in the next few weeks and months they get closer and closer, fall in love and have a happy time together - until one day Jack is given a two-day holiday on the shore . He learns that Kay has had a love affair with Lucky that has lasted two years and is horrified. Kay is torn between the two men herself, so that after Jack leaves she is absolutely dejected. But Lucky also realizes that his love is for a married woman, so he seeks consolation in a night of love with Hazel. Kay finds out and wants to remain silent about the situation so that the mutual friendship with Lucky and Hazel does not break.

But during an evening together, where a lot of alcohol is drunk, all emotional wounds gape again. Kay accuses Hazel of betraying her and Hazel defends herself by saying that Kay was married to Jack all the time. That's too much for Lucky and he's leaving forever. Peace in friendship only comes with the surrender of Japan . Hazel marries her old friend Biscuits Toohey and Jack moves back in with his wife Kay.

criticism

“Jonathan Demme's drama about life on the home front during World War II has the smooth and graceful proportions of a Tommy Dorsey song or the wood-paneled wagons. These memories of the forties are like artifacts from the forties - lovely, but also too calm. "

- New York Magazine

“ Swing Shift , directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Rob Morton, is a pseudonym for a sweet romantic comedy. [...] It's the best role for Miss Hawn since Sagittarius Benjamin . "

- The New York Times

“This is a real-life movie that director Jonathan Demme is always good for. It's so nostalgic that even the anger at the end, when the war ends and women lose their jobs again, seems bittersweet. "

- Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times

"Elaborately equipped, perfectly staged entertainment film that sensitively explores emotions and motivations and avoids the danger of a smoothed nostalgic look back through precisely worked out comments on the role of women."

- Lexicon of international film

background

Kevin Costner was originally offered the role of Lucky Lockhart. Since he was not available, however, she played Kurt Russel. Hawn and Russell fell in love while filming and have been living together, unmarried, ever since.

Goldie Hawn, who produced the film, fell out with director Jonatham Demme over the direction and style of the film. After seeing the rough cut at the end of 1983, she had a few scenes shot with herself and Kurt Russel and cut out several scenes with Lahti. Afterwards, too, with the support of Warner Bros. , she had the film edited against Demme's express request. For years Demme was upset about it and didn't talk about the film. He originally planned a feminist parable about women sticking together during wartime. He later stated that he was horrified that it turned into a shallow Hollywood drama. However, a bootleg VHS was released showing the director's cut .

Awards

publication

After its theatrical release on April 13, 1984, the film was able to gross again about 6.6 million US dollars. In Germany the film was released directly on VHS on October 9, 1987 and has been available on DVD since September 22, 2006 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Denby : All Quiet On The Home Front in New York Magazine of April 30, 1984 (English), accessed February 4, 2012
  2. ↑ Vincent Canby : Swing Shift (1984) on nytimes.com of April 13, 1984 (English), accessed February 4, 2012
  3. ↑ Roger Ebert : Swing Shift (PG) on suntimes.com (English), accessed on February 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Swing Shift - temporary love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ David Edelstein: SCREEN STEALER, Christine Lahti Rises Above the Flops in New York Magazin on March 31, 1986 (English), accessed on February 4, 2012
  6. ↑ Stephen Prince: A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 , 180.
  7. ^ Contemporary North American film directors: a Wallflower critical guide , p. 130.
  8. ↑ Desperately Seeking Swing Shift on themanfromporlock.blogspot.com from August 8, 2009, accessed February 4, 2012
  9. ↑ Swing Shift (1984) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed February 4, 2012