Cast - Grant Aleksander, Jeff Branson, Jess Weixler, Matt Servitto, Paget
Brewster Ricky Ullman, Todd Susman
A beginner's adult swim class at a Connecticut
recreation center attracts a diverse group of strangers in Ishai Setton's
visually arresting debut feature. Amy Malone (Paget Brewster) is a high school
math teacher who is in danger of losing both her job and her husband Paul
(Grant Aleksander), who is having an affair with another teacher. Amy enrolls
in the swim class in order to make new friends, and she immediately befriends
Jordan (Jess Weixler), a younger woman who deals blackjack at Mohegan Sun and
moonlights as a stripper. Jordan
gradually finds herself attracted to handsome swim instructor Noah Owens (Jeff
Branson), a former Olympic hopeful who has problems of his own. Rounding out
the class are a prosperous couple, a mother and daughter, a competitive young woman
who also has her eye on Noah, a new mother who has never felt comfortable in a
bathing suit, and a cop. Meanwhile, Jordan's
brother David (Avi Setton) and his friend Hunter (Ricky Ullman) are making a
documentary about Jordan for David's English class, and their documentary may turn out to
be more revealing than they had planned. Daniel Schechter's screenplay probes
the everyday loneliness of ordinary lives, the joy of finding love where you
least expect it, and the emotional strength that comes with overcoming your
fears and just diving into the pool-and life-head first.
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Director, Producer - Ishai Setton
Producer Chandra Simon
Writer - Daniel Schechter
Cinematographer/DP - Josh Silfen
Picture Editor - Ian B. Wile
Original Music/Composer - Chad Kelly
Production Designer -Valerie Green
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