Screenplay a rip-off?
I know it's supposed to be based on a John Cheever story, but I find it very, very similar to a 1970s "adult" movie, "The Buggerer," starring the late AC-DC pornstar Jack Wrangler. In that movie, instead of swimming from pool to pool, he visits every room in every swing club in Manhattan, having anal sex in each. It's a wrenching, harrowing story of self-deception and self-discovery. The only thing is that in this version, the counterpart scene to the kid at the swimming pool in "The Swimmer" is much more disturbing.
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