Swoon (film)
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Directed by | Tom Kalin |
Written by | Tom Kalin Hilton Als |
Produced by | Christine Vachon |
Starring | Craig Chester |
Cinematography | Ellen Kuras |
Edited by | Tom Kalin |
Music by | James Bennett |
Distributed by | Fine Line Features |
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Running time | 93 mins |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $250,000 (estimated) |
Box office | $340,147 (US sub-total) |
Swoon is a 1992 independent film written and directed by Tom Kalin. It is an account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case. It stars as Loeb and Craig Chester as Leopold.
Along with the films of Todd Haynes, Gregg Araki and others, Swoon is identified as part of the New Queer Cinema.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
- as Richard Loeb
- Craig Chester as Nathan Leopold Jr.
- Ron Vawter as State's Attorney Crowe
- Michael Kirby as Detective Savage
- as Doctor Bowman
- as Germaine Reinhardt
- as Susan Lurie
- Glenn Backes as James Day
Awards[]
- 1992 Berlin International Film Festival - Caligari Film Award, Best Feature - Tom Kalin
- 1992 Sundance Film Festival - Cinematography Award (Dramatic) - Ellen Kuras, nominated for Grand Jury Prize
- 1993 Independent Spirit Awards - Nominated for Best Cinematography (Ellen Kuras), Best Director (Tom Kalin), Best First Feature, and Best Male Lead (Craig Chester)
- 1992 Gotham Awards - Open Palm Award - Tom Kalin
- 1992 Stockholm International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize for Best Feature, Audience Award
- 1993 Fantasporto - Directors' Week Award - Tom Kalin
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Categories:
- 1992 films
- English-language films
- 1992 crime drama films
- 1992 independent films
- 1992 LGBT-related films
- American films
- American crime drama films
- American LGBT-related films
- American courtroom films
- Films based on the Leopold and Loeb murder
- Films produced by Christine Vachon
- Films set in Chicago
- Killer Films films
- Sundance Film Festival award winners
- Crime drama film stubs
- LGBT-related film stubs