Movie: A Trip to Swadades

Top 6 Billed Cast

Robert Swenson
Robert Swenson

Schweitzer Haas

Glenn Walsh
Glenn Walsh

Ezra Haas

Stephen Hatzai
Stephen Hatzai

Claude Schoonover

Kenneth McGregor
Kenneth McGregor

Dooby

Katya Quinn-Judge
Katya Quinn-Judge

Woman in Dream

William Cully Allen
William Cully Allen

Grocer

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    Shot on black-and-white super-16mm, A Trip to Swadades tells the story of a 74-year-old ex-professor named Schweitzer Haas who, after many years of living away from Philadelphia, the city where he came of age, returns to visit his hermit brother Ezra who has perfected his freakish steel-trap memory. As a result, however, his apartment has become an unlivable and unsanitary place. He goes out to find some cleaning supplies, only to find himself lost in a city he no longer knows. By shear happenstance, he bumps into an old friend, a world-class cut-up, who takes him to a place of importance to their past. There, Schweitzer realizes he must reconcile with the brother he has not spoken to and has refused to understand for most of his life.

  • Release Date

    2008-05-23

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

    The past is like a man whistling sayonara.

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