The eighth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features Jason’s personal pick, influential indie comedy Swingers. Written by Jon Favreau, directed by Doug Liman and starring Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Patrick Van Horn, Alex Desert and Heather Graham, Swingers was a minor box-office success, but went on to be one of the essential movies of the ’90s indie boom.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/swingers-1996), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/11/01/swingers-2/), and Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-10-25-9610250071-story.html).

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