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Swoon
Directed by
Tom Kalin
Not Rated
1992
1h 33m
Drama
,
Crime
6.6
73%
65%
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The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
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Cast of Swoon
Daniel Schlachet
Richard Loeb
Craig Chester
Nathan Leopold Jr.
Ron Vawter
State's Attorney Crowe
Michael Stumm
Doctor Bowman
Valda Z. Drabla
Germaine Reinhardt
Paul Connor
Bobby Franks
Adina Porter
Stenographer
Todd Haynes
Phrenology Head
Pamela Koffler
Phrenology Head
James Lyons
Prison Mugshot
Bobby Reed
Reporter
Michael Kirby
Detective Savage
Tom Kalin
Director / Writer
Hilton Als
Writer
Christine Vachon
Producer
Swoon Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Kalin... infuses the story with high visual style; his spare graphic framings and joltingly oblique angles both embody the past in heightened detail and conjure the killers' recklessly aestheticizing mind-set.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
An exotic mood piece, based on the infamous Leopold-Loeb case, that probably didn't win director Tom Kalin many friends in the gay community.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
As a dark, moody and stylized (the film is shot in b/w) poem of love and madness Swoon is effective, but as social polemic on contemporary gay issues, it's strained; even so, it's a striking feature debut.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Faux artsy take on the Leopold-Loeb case.
Mixed Reviews
Gabriel Shanks
Moody, dispassionate take on the savagery of crime that neither illuminates nor captivates.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Swoon goes much deeper than the other studies of the Frank case, because it tries to show exactly how the psychosexual balance between the two killers made a murder possible, when neither Leopold nor Loeb could possibly have killed by himself.
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