Swingers (1996)

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Swingers (1996)

Directed by
Doug Liman

Plot synopsis:
Swingers is about a loosely knit group of friends who hang out in Hollywood and hope to make it big in the entertainment industry. "The hottest 1 percent of guys from all over the world come to our gene pool,'' they assure one another, although that gives them better prospects for reproduction than success. One of the guys, named Trent (Vince Vaughn), uses the word "money'' as an adjective: "That's really money. They'll see how money you are.'' This is inspired, since in Hollywood absolutely everything comes down to money. Intelligence, beauty, talent and fame go through a kind of universal currency exchange, and come out converted into money, less 15 percent.

The film's hero is Mike (Jon Favreau), who wants to be a stand-up comic but has no job prospects. A friend is weighing an offer to play Goofy at Disneyland ("Hey, at least it's Disney,'' Trent observes). Mike mopes about Michelle, the girlfriend he left behind back East, and Trent spends long hours with him in the coffee shop of a Best Western, advising him that you cannot get a woman to come back unless you're willing to forget her, after which, of course, you don't care if she comes back.

The movie follows Mike, Trent and a shifting cast of friends through several days, during which they drive through the Hollywood Hills looking for parties at which Trent promises there will be lots of "honey babies'' to pick up. They spend a lot of time playing an advanced version of video hockey. They go looking for hot clubs ("All the cool bars in Hollywood have to be real hard to find and have no signs''). They try to pick up girls (Mike claims he's in show biz, but the woman remembers seeing him in Starbucks, picking up an employment application). In the middle of his angst, Mike more or less shuts down, cowering in his half-furnished apartment. Trent blasts him out with a midnight drive to Las Vegas, where Mike has difficulty finding conversation openers (it doesn't help to drop insights about the Age of Enlightenment). Amazingly, they pick up a couple of waitresses, who take them home (an Airstream trailer), where of course Mike blubbers about his former girlfriend. [source: rogerebert.com]

Cast:

	Jon Favreau	....	Mike Peters
	Vince Vaughn	....	Trent Walker
	Ron Livingston	....	Rob
	Patrick Van Horn	....	Sue
	Alex Désert	....	Charles (as Alex Desert)
	Heather Graham	....	Lorraine
	Deena Martin	....	Christy
	Katherine Kendall	....	Lisa
	Brooke Langton	....	Nikki
	Blake Lindsley	....	Girl with Cigar
	Kevin James Kelly	....	Vegas Dealer
	Stephanie Ittelson	....	Vegas Waitress
	Vernon Vaughn	....	$100 Gambler
	Joan Favreau	....	$5 Winner
	Rio Hackford	....	Skully
	Caitlyn Tyler Cole	....	Girl at Party
	Maddie Corman	....	Peek-a-Boo Girl
	Marty Roberts	....	Dresden Lounge Act (as Marty and Elayne)
	Elayne Roberts	....	Dresden Lounge Act (as Marty and Elayne)
	Big Bad Voodoo Daddy	....	Derby Band
	Sheri Rosenblum	....	$100 Gambler
	Stasea Rosenblum	....	$100 Gambler
	Pamela Shaw	....	$5 Gambler
	Tom Alley	....	Pit Boss
	Reverend Phil Dixon	....	Lounge Lizard
	Ashley M. Rogers	....	Bartender
	Jay Diola	....	Skully's Crew
	Nicholas Gagliarducci	....	Skully's Crew
	David Gould	....	Skully's Crew
	Bill Phillips	....	Skully's Crew
	Mensur Hamud	....	Pink Dot Guy
	Ahmed Ahmed	....	Party Mystery Guy
	Eufemia Plimpton	....	Derby Lady
	Melinda Starr	....	Derby Lady
	Samantha Lemole	....	Dresden Lady
	Jessica Buchman	....	Dresden Lady
	Caroline O'Meara	....	Diner Waitress
	Gary Rurback	....	Derby Doorman
	Brad Halvorson	....	Derby Doorman
	Christopher B. Joyce	....	Diner Patron
	Edward Rissien	....	Diner Patron
	Jenna Rissien	....	Diner Patron
	Mark Smith	....	Diner Patron
	John Abraham	....	Derby Dancer
	Rachael Lin Gallaghan	....	Derby Dancer
	Lisa Guerriero	....	Derby Dancer
	Thomas Hall	....	Derby Dancer
	Damiana Kamishin	....	Derby Dancer
	Curtis Lindersmith	....	Derby Dancer
	Jennifer Lucero	....	Derby Dancer
	Pinki Marsolek	....	Derby Dancer
	Rhonda Martin	....	Derby Dancer
	Martina Migenes	....	Derby Dancer
	Paul Mojica	....	Derby Dancer
	Sam Mollo	....	Derby Dancer
	Jacob Morris	....	Derby Dancer
	Michael Scott	....	Derby Dancer
	Bernard Serrano	....	Derby Dancer
	Rosalind Smith	....	Derby Dancer
	Molly Stern	....	Derby Dancer
	Johnny Walker	....	Derby Dancer
	Lisa Wolstein	....	Derby Dancer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Tiffany Kuzon	....	Michelle in Pictures (uncredited)
	Nicole LaLoggia	....	Michelle on Phone (voice) (uncredited)
	Spyder O'Cleary	....	Derby Patron (uncredited)
	Steve J. Termath	....	Derby Patron (uncredited)
	Blake Tierney	....	Bartender (uncredited)