In the 1968 film The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster plays Ned Merrill, who realises it is possible to ‘swim’ home from the suburban pool party he is attending using other friends’ back garden swimming pools as ‘a river’. After announcing his plan, he dives into the pool, gets out the other end, disappears over the fence and starts what becomes an increasingly eventful journey.
The film made such an impression on my housemate and I
