Thursday, May 25, 2023

Release: The Night Swim

 

The Night Swim
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Nia DaCosta
Writer: Rene Menzie
Based on the novel by Megan Goldin
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Rooney Mara, Joe Cole, Corey Stoll, Spencer Treat Clark, Michael Sheen, Cary Elwes, Sophie Rundle, Stephanie Beatriz, Topher Grace




Budget: $33,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $29,482,595
Foreign Box Office: $17,589,490
Total Profit: -$20,491,004


Reaction: While the Novel Adaptation Curse has been broken by a couple outlying films here and there, the overall trend continues here with another novel adaptation flopping at the box office.

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"It seems as though many of the books that are chosen for adaptations here at LRF probably shouldn’t be adapted. Although portrayed as a Thriller, I did not find anything in this film at all thrilling. The films strengths are overshadowed by what essentially, in my viewing experience, is a bore of a film to get through." - Arthur Watson, The Daily Telegraph



"The Night Swim is a thriller without any attempt to create any thrills for the audience. Meanwhile all of the Mystery elements feel super obvious and telegraphed. The story wastes a talented cast with its characters almost exclusively relegated to delivering exposition and serving as plot points." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press




"Tessa Thompson, Rooney Mara and the rest of the cast are all super talented, but they are mere cogs in a dry and predictable mystery here. The central mystery would have some potential if it was handled more carefully and with a bit more interest in making the film stand on its own legs from a storytelling standpoint." - Cooper Wilson, The Earl Hays Press






Rated R for violence, language, sexual content and nudity

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