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7 May 1999 (UK) moreTagline:
Getting this dream off the ground takes some pretty fancy footwork!Plot:
An optimistic guy is arrested and thrown in jail, while there he learns the saxophone from a fellow inmate... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
_Swing_ swings from gritty naturalism to bizarre implausiblity moreCast
(Credited cast) | Hugo Speer | ... | Martin 'Marty' Luxford |
 | Lisa Stansfield | ... | Joan Woodcock |
 | Paul Usher | ... | Liam Luxford |
| Tom Bell | ... | Sid Luxford |
| Rita Tushingham | ... | Mags Luxford |
| Danny McCall | ... | Andy |
| Alexei Sayle | ... | Mighty Mac |
| Clarence Clemons | ... | Jack |
 | Scot Williams | ... | Buddy |
| James Hicks | ... | Oi |
| Nerys Hughes | ... | Maria |
| Tom Georgeson | ... | Uncle Matty |
| Jimmy Nail | ... | Arthur |
| Gavin Watson | ... | Orangeman / Piano |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jon Huyton | ... | Assistant Hotel Manager |
| Dermot Keaney | ... | Arnold |
| Eddie Webber | ... | Cockney Wanker #1 |
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Jack: Playing the sax is like telling the truth. You never have to tell the same lie twice - if you tell the truth. moreSoundtrack:
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Where would a jealous cop try to forment a riot in a hotel to win his wife back from the leader of a swing band? In contemporary Liverpool, if this film is to be believed. Mind you, it also asks us to believe that the same band leader, who's a Catholic, vows to bring up his kids as protestants in return for the use of a band hall. _Swing_ can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be a zany comedy of a piece of naturalism in the British Social Realist tradition, and this schizophrenia often irritates. It's got some entertaining scenes , though, some great music and good acting, particularly from the sexy Lisa Stansfield.