Swing

1999, 97 minutes

An optimistic guy is arrested and thrown in jail, while there he learns the saxophone from a fellow inmate. Once he's released from jail, he and a few friends form a swing band while he tries to win back his girlfriend who married the police officer who a

Swing is the good-natured tale of a Liverpudlian ex-con who decides to make a new life for himself as the leader of a swing band. When we are first introduced to Martin (The Full Monty's Hugo Speer), he is being released from the slammer, where he did time out of loyalty to his wayward brother, Liam. His cellmate, Jack, a sweatsuit-wearing, dreadlocked sax player who looks suspiciously like Clarence Clemons (because he is), inspired Martin to make swing his vocation and serves as his conscience throughout the film. This is a good thing, because nobody else seems to think he can pull it off, including his ex-girlfriend, Joan (Lisa Stansfield), now married to the cop that put him away, and his own parents (nicely played by veteran British actors Rita Tushingham and Tom Bell). Joan has missed singing, however, and eventually decides to join Martin's band, along with a soccer- loving bass player, skinhead drummer, and horn section of Orange Brigades led by The Young Ones' Alexei Sayle.



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Leon Cheo
Writer / Director
Director, Writer, Producer
Jules Powell
Line Producer
3rd Assistant Director