Swingers

“You’re so money and you don’t even know it.”

"...(Van Horn) throughout director Doug Liman's feature film debut Swingers. Being money is the thing, baby, and if you're..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Go

"...Breckin Meyer. Relentless and mercurial, this new outing by Swingers' director Liman takes off somewhere around Mach 3 and..."

April 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lifestyle: Group Sex in the Suburbs

"...documentary explores the semi-hidden world of “the lifestyle" -- swingers in suburbia -- and what it finds is decidedly..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Made

"...Favreau and Vince Vaughn since the breakout success of Swingers in 1996, which Favreau also wrote. This time, Favreau..."

July 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Couples Retreat

Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau prove they are no longer swingers, but since this film is the only new national release this week, it's sure to be "money."

"...every turn in this new date movie from former "swingers" Vaughn and Favreau, who now write themselves roles as..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Love Is

Writer/director Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last – and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.

"...(Lillard), a wannabe gangster who, like Vince Vaughn in Swingers, is a semantic alpha male, a misogynist who hides..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Whipped

"...(see She's Gotta Have It's Mars Blackmon or the Swingers set), but they're not. The trio of rakes might..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Office Space

White-collar prisoners of the corporate office will recognize themselves in this very funny, Austin-lensed movie.

"...are all sharply drawn examples of picture-perfect understatement. Livingston (Swingers) makes a career breakthrough as the film's Everyman, Herman..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Score

A bisexual romp from 1972 from Radley Metzger, the film industry's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies.

"...married couple Jack (Grant) and Elvira (Wilbur) lures other swingers to their luxurious home located “in the village of..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Plump Fiction

"...by an inspired, 3-minute short that blithely sends up Swingers and Sling Blade, called -- wait for it --..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The 22nd Annual Austin Film Festival

Hybrid film delves into the Mineola Swingers Club trials

"...the last few years, the events surrounding the "Mineola Swingers Club" trials are now widely viewed as a shocking..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Caitlin Moore

Double Down

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.

"...buddy Vince Vaughn since the duo's 1996 breakout comedy, Swingers. That film -- a lovably self-conscious kind of "Rules..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Film's First Course

'Chef' is ultimately all about what's cooking at the festival

"...– he broke out with the amazing indie hit Swingers in 1996 and now directs megablockbusters like Iron Man..."

March 8, 2014 SXSW Post by Jeff Winkler

Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers

Sunday

"...Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Music Review by Greg Beets

Parental Guidance Suggested

The Adults

"...So, Trainspotting or Swingers?..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Outside Story

After a year trapped inside, a welcome comedic reminder of life in fresh air

"...and Isha. Among them are a pair of Swedish swingers just dropping by for a threesome with Charles upstairs..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

“I Believe You’d Get Your Ass Kicked Saying Somethin’ Like That, Man.”

Re-read our original Office Space review

"...all sharply drawn examples of picture-perfect understatement. Ron Livingston (Swingers) makes a career breakthrough as the film's Everyman, David..."

March 1, 2019 Screens Feature

Unfinished Business

The crude humor and cloying sentiment of Vince Vaughn's latest comedy make it a dud

"...Watch, and Delivery Man each reined in his profane Swingers-era swagger, and those vehicles suffered for it. Unfinished Business..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Everything I Need to Know About Drinking I Learned From Hollywood

Relying on TV and film for drinking tips

"...ordering Scotch, order something that starts with "Glen." – Swingers..."

July 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

The Luv Doc: Real Swinging Versus Imagined Swinging

Don't stress over something that doesn't actually exist

"...time with them but we think they might be swingers. When we go out to dinner they always make..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

An Unlikely Reporter From the Secret Sexual Jungle

Suzy Spencer sets aside true crime to explore Americans' particular passions

"...of our sexuality, with trips to kink conventions and swingers' resorts.)..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Gay Place

What is more delicious than a tender, caring heart?

"...HELLO, SWINGERS We don't always find ourselves at Project Transitions' twice-a-year..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Column by Kate X Messer

Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr.'s sly take on Marvel Comics' cold warrior elevates everything about this film.

"...Favreau? If you'd told me 12 years ago that Swingers' comic linchpin would end up helming one of the..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland

Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.

"...Long (Accepted) up onstage to re-enact a scene from Swingers; he and his Crashers co-star Keir O’Donnell rekindled their..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Holly

Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.

"...Livingston. From the first time I saw him in Swingers right through his cult coronation in Office Space and..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Anything Can Happen: Jon Favreau and Dax Shepard on Zathura

How this Jumanji requel took to the stars

"...odds that the star of the sex-mad indie smash Swingers, the director of Elf, and the co-producer of Green..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Wedding Crashers

The film’s sour tone, unremarkable direction, and bewildering characterizations of sexuality and race will probably not not hurt the comedy's charm at the box office.

"...a role just once-removed from his breakout performance in Swingers, most consistently brings the laughs with his frequent motor-mouth..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sad Stories and Steel Guitars

Tearjoint Troubador Ted Roddy's Country Soul

"...to ride the revival wave stirred up by pompadoured swingers the Stray Cats. One of his fellow Talltops was..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Replacements

"...Favreau (best known as the likable sad sack from Swingers and Friends) is almost unrecognizable as the sic-dog, SWAT-team-terror..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Public Notice

It's time for scary season, the season that has us examining our obsession with the nevermore, puts us in touch with our mortality, and brings us that much closer to our maker (and some of us to Maker's Mark, but that's another story -- ).

"...Project Transitions needs swingers (who want to meet like-minded public service type swingers)!..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

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