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...SWING SHIFT...
...Kool-Aid" Mom, who gratefully remembers how her own mother used to serve tall glasses of juice to the thirsty kids on the block. Although these black-and-white flashbacks of Americans are tolerable in 30-second packages, their flat sentimentality cannot sustain an audience for two hours. Swing Shift, the film that professes to tell what happened when "the men went to war and the women went to work," completely fails to represent the dynamic period of World War II America...
...Swing Shift tells the story of a young woman Kay Walsh (Goldie Hawn), who marries her high-school sweetheart, Jack (Ed Harris), only to find her blissful newlywed life disrupted by the reality of World War II. With the outbreak of war, Jack immediately enlists in the Marines. When Jack leaves, Kay gets a job at a factory which makes fighter planes and works the late swing shift with hundreds of other newly employed women. At the factory she meets and eventually falls in love with one of the line leaders. Lucky (Kurt Russell), who was turned down...
...Many of Swing Shift's characters are simply stock "types" rather than convincing people. There is Kay's husband Fred, the high school athlete with a strong patriotic sensibility. When the enlists in the Navy he tells his distraught wife that "They've started it, we've got to finish it." In addition, there are Kay's fellow factory workers who, as the movie progresses, become recognizable by face, but never by a distinct personality...
...little change in his pre-swing motion, some batting practice in the Leverett House basement and "a lot of work in the off season" changed the 218 bitter of 1983 into the 333 bitter...