Swingers (1996 film)

Swingers
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDoug Liman
Written byJon Favreau
Produced byVictor Simpkins
Starring
CinematographyDoug Liman
Edited byStephen Mirrione
Music byJustin Reinhardt
Production
companies
Independent Pictures
Alfred Shay Productions
Distributed byMiramax Films
Release date
  • October 18, 1996 (1996-10-18)
Running time
96 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$250,000[2]
Box office$4.6 million[2]

Swingers is a 1996 American buddy comedy film about the lives of single, unemployed actors living on the 'eastside' of Hollywood, California, during the 1990s swing revival. Written by Jon Favreau and directed by Doug Liman, the film starred Favreau alongside Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Van Horn, Alex Désert, and Heather Graham.

A critical and commercial hit, the film helped propel Favreau, Vaughn, Graham, and Livingston to stardom, while also launching Liman's directing career as he won the award for Best New Filmmaker at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards.

This film was rated #58 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". The film was honored on the 2007 Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards. In 2011, Empire magazine listed the film as #49 on its "50 Greatest American Independent Films" list.[3]

  1. ^ "SWINGERS (15)". British Board of Film Classification. February 18, 1997. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Toy, Sam; Carty, Stephen; Jolin, Dan; White, James; O'Hara, Helen; Plumb, Ali; De Semlyen, Philip (June 30, 2011). "The 50 Greatest American Independent Movies". Empire. Retrieved November 7, 2021.