The Big Bad Swim
by Ishai Setton
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Actor: Jeff Branson, Jess Weixler, Paget Brewster, Ricky UllmanDirector: Ishai Setton
Brand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 51259
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Product features:
- An adult swim sets the stage for this charming comedy-drama about love, loss, and second chances. Three strangers inextricably connected through personal heartbreak find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile. Starring Jeff Branson (TV's All My Children) and Paget Brewster (TV's Criminal Minds).Not R
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DVD Review: Jump into "The Big Bad Swim"
Summary: 4 Stars
A community pool in Connecticut is the setting for this "under the radar" film
which is charming, funny,entertaining, and appealing. Although it won prizes
in major film festivals, The Big Bad Swim was not widely released to theatres
across America, but was distributed in DVD form, and selectively shown.
It is unfortunate that The Big Bad Swim never had the marketing muscle of a Hollywood
release, considering how many sinkers Hollywood HAS released this year.
The Big Bad Swim, a genuinely good independent film, has to swim upstream on its own.
In "The Big Bad Swim," actress Paget Brewster is endearing and believable as Amy, the
wired-to-breaking point math teacher who loses her husband and is about to also
lose her job, but then ends up taking a gamble on a new life. TV soap actor Jeff Branson--
who is HOT-- plays Noah, the earnest, vulnerable swim teacher who goes the extra pool
length to help his students overcome their fears, and discovers he can learn from his
students. Pretty, sexy Jess Weixler deftly plays Jordan, the swimmer to be who works two
jobs, one as a pole dancer, the other as a blackjack dealer. Her character provides the
catalyst for change amongst the ensemble, but is the least understandable of the characters,
because of alack of a "back story" or motivation as to why she does what she does. Jordan
is young enough to stilllive at home with a ubiquitous, video camera toting younger
brother who spies on her, but her parents arenot shown to be involved with her life in
any way, which seems odd. There's no drunken mother or abusivefather here to explain
why a normal, attractive girlfrom a Connecticut suburb would choose to be a self
medicating pole dancer who debases herself for loutish bachelor parties. Despite this
nagging doubt, The Big Bad Swim succeeds, in large part, because it is a happy, feel good film.
As one might expect, learning to swim is the metaphor for life, where it's better to jump
in with both feet,and get in the swim, than to sit on the deck, because life happens
to you anyway.
The Big Bad Swim is a great date movie, a great dorm movie, a great "what haven't I seen" movie, and men
like it as well as women.
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