# Swing Shift - Tempo di swing (1984)

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**Original title**: *Swing Shift*
**Runtime**: 100 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, War
**Directed by**: Jonathan Demme
**Written by**: Nancy Dowd
**Starring**: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris, Sudie Bond

> *When America marched off to war the women marched into the factory. From then on...nothing was the same.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Jonathan Demme directs this saga of wartime labor and love. Kay gets a job in an aircraft plant while her husband is fighting overseas. Soon she is juggling friendships, factory work, and a complicated affair with a musician. It's a portrait of a woman's life, albeit a very movie-ish one.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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