Swing Shift (film)

Swing Shift
Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney
Directed byJonathan Demme
Written byNancy Dowd
Bo Goldman
Ron Nyswaner
Produced byJerry Bick
Starring
CinematographyTak Fujimoto
Edited byGib Jaffe
Craig McKay
Music byPeter Allen
Bruce Langhorne
Patrick Williams
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • April 13, 1984 (1984-04-13)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million[1]
Box office$6.6 million

Swing Shift is a 1984 American romantic drama directed by Jonathan Demme, and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn,[2] with Kurt Russell. It also features Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris and Holly Hunter, in one of her earlier movie roles. The film was a box office bomb, grossing just $6.6 million against its $15 million budget. Lahti earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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  2. ^ "Swing Shift". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on April 6, 2016. Retrieved March 27, 2016.