The Sterile Cuckoo / The Swimmer (Double-Feature)
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- The Sterile Cuckoo / The Swimmer (Double-Feature) is 1 hr 48 min long.
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THE STERILE CUCKOO, 1969, Paramount, 107 min. Director Alan J. Pakula adapts John Nichols’ novel into this bittersweet story of awkward first love in the college world of upstate New York. Liza Minnelli is Pookie, a needy, neurotic young girl who attaches herself to retiring bookworm Jerry (Wendell Burton). Gradually, she seduces him with her offbeat, abrasive humor, her sweetness and tireless pursuit. But Jerry proves only a fuzzy symbol of what Pookie needs and is not ready or able to supply the love-starved girl with constant validation.
THE SWIMMER, 1968, Sony Repertory, 94 min. Director Frank Perry made 10 low-key, razor-sharp dissections of modern morals and relationships between 1962 and 1975. Vigorous, middle-aged, upper-middle-class Burt Lancaster is on a metaphoric journey swimming from backyard pool to backyard pool in his lush, upscale suburban neighborhood, headed towards a “home” that may no longer exist.
