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If there was a boogie woogie bugle boy, there had to be a female equivalent.

Heavy-handed comedy-drama: equal parts pathos and nostalgia

Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds in Best Friends (1982)

Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, and Walter Matthau in Cactus Flower (1969)

Woody Harrelson, Goldie Hawn, Wesley Snipes, Jsu Garcia, Tab Thacker, and Mykelti Williamson in Wildcats (1986)

Robin Williams and Kurt Russell in The Best of Times (1986)

Kelly McGillis and Kurt Russell in Winter People (1989)

Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, and Fred Ward in Swing Shift (1984)

Each returning serviceman will get his job back when the war is won. And you girls and women, you'll be going home. Back to being housewives and mothers as you promised to do when you came to work with us. Your lives will return to normal.

Goldie Hawn and Christine Lahti in Swing Shift (1984)

Goldie Hawn and Holly Hunter in Swing Shift (1984)

Roger Corman and Stephen Tobolowsky in Swing Shift (1984)

Kurt Russell and Christine Lahti in Swing Shift (1984)

Goldie Hawn

Kurt Russell

Christine Lahti

Nancy Dowd

Ron Nyswaner

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Jonathan Demme

Swing Shift

Swing Shift is a nice period piece.

I really did like this movie.  There&apos;s a lot to like.  It&apos;s the beginning of World War II, and all the men are being called to the Army.  Goldie Hawn and Ed Harris are a typical American couple thus pulled apart.  Goldie gets a Rosie the Riveter job, where she meets Kurt Russel, a 4F plant foreman, and the rest is history.  

Swing Shift was directed by Jonathan Demme, of Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia fame, and if this one is a little lighter, it was also a lot earlier in his career.  Holly Hunter appears in a very small supporting role, but gives it her star-quality best.  Christine Lahti is magnificent as the single neighbor who befriends Goldie at the factory even though she and her husband were cruel to her before the war changed everyone&apos;s lives.  Fred Ward was already becoming old hat, but he, like the rest of the film, ends up being likeable and thoroughly enjoyable.

Hawn and Russell met on the set and have been together ever since.  Maybe the excitement of their real-life romance drained the spark from their on-screen version.  This could have been a really moving story of a woman who falls in love while her husband is off to war, but ends up showing us a couple of bump-buddies killing time till their real lives resume.  Perhaps that was the point.

Ed Harris is perfectly cast as the common man trying to keep his marriage together in the face of all that life throws in its way.  There is a famous scene, in which Ed, wearing nothing but a bath towel, plops into a floppy chair with a cold beer.  The resulting bounce proves that Harris is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and explains why this charming little tale will never be on DVD.

Swing Shift is a nice period piece, and provides an amusing, if not entirely accurate, view of the tumultous years in the middle of the last century when the entire world went to war.

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I really did like this movie.  There's a lot to like.  It's the beginning of World War II, and all the men are being called to the Army.  Goldie Hawn and Ed Harris are a typical American couple thus pulled apart.  Goldie gets a Rosie the Riveter job, where she meets Kurt Russel, a 4F plant foreman, and the rest is history.  

Swing Shift was directed by Jonathan Demme, of Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia fame, and if this one is a little lighter, it was also a lot earlier in his career.  Holly Hunter appears in a very small supporting role, but gives it her star-quality best.  Christine Lahti is magnificent as the single neighbor who befriends Goldie at the factory even though she and her husband were cruel to her before the war changed everyone's lives.  Fred Ward was already becoming old hat, but he, like the rest of the film, ends up being likeable and thoroughly enjoyable.

Hawn and Russell met on the set and have been together ever since.  Maybe the excitement of their real-life romance drained the spark from their on-screen version.  This could have been a really moving story of a woman who falls in love while her husband is off to war, but ends up showing us a couple of bump-buddies killing time till their real lives resume.  Perhaps that was the point.

Ed Harris is perfectly cast as the common man trying to keep his marriage together in the face of all that life throws in its way.  There is a famous scene, in which Ed, wearing nothing but a bath towel, plops into a floppy chair with a cold beer.  The resulting bounce proves that Harris is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and explains why this charming little tale will never be on DVD.

Swing Shift is a nice period piece, and provides an amusing, if not entirely accurate, view of the tumultous years in the middle of the last century when the entire world went to war.

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