With Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Thomas Turgoose, Adeel Akhtar. A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his A man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team. The men on the team in "Swimming With Men" are not, to put it mildly, athletic.
Swimming with Men touches on thought-provoking themes surrounding modern masculinity, but ultimately never manages to do much more than tread water. Swimming with Men movie reviews & Metacritic score: His job is a drag, his wife may be cheating on him, and he's not getting any younger. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box.
Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Eric (Rob Brydon) is a washed up accountant suffering something of a mid-life crisis, effectively estranged from wife Heather (Jane Horrocks) and fast developing a love of the bottle. A man suffering a midlife crisis joins a synchronised swimming team in a feelgood film based on a real-life event. Starring Rob Brydon, Jane Horrocks, Jim Carter, Daniel Mays, Rupert Graves, Thomas At the centre of it all is men's synchronised swimming. Yes, it does exist, and no doubt Parker and his writer, Aschlin Ditta, thought it sounded hilarious when.
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It was directed by Oliver Parker. New film Swimming With Men, directed by Oliver Parker and starring Rob Brydon in the lead role, is a touching story about mid-life crises, male When Eric joins a group of male synchronised swimmers, he discovers that making patterns in a pool and sharing the camaraderie and support of the group. "Swimming With Men" is a British boys club comedy with a fixation on flesh. Refreshingly in this film, though, it is men of a certain age who are the ones Visually, the movie takes after its ragtag team of swimmers.
Rob Brydon of the 'Trip' movies plays a depressed accountant who becomes newly energized when he joins an amateur male synchronized swimming team in this comedy directed by Oliver Parker. Rob Brydon stars in Swimming with Men. While predictable and a bit flat, it's still an underdog sporting flick, which is the very best kind, so while hardly memorable Swimming with Men manages to be pleasant viewing. Sadly, I don't think Oliver Parker will realise the Oscarwin dream of British filmmakers with Swimming With Men, an underpowered comedy about an amateur, all-male, synchronised swimming team.