Swing Shift (1984)

IMDb plot summary: A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, and Christine Lahti.

Swing Shift features Goldie Hawn as a woman whose husband goes off to World War II. She, along with many other soldiers' wives, gets a job working in an airplane factory. As she works there, she begins to gain some independence, grow in confidence, and make some friends she wouldn't have before, including a man she develops feelings for (played by Kurt Russell). This is a perfectly middle-of-the-road movie highlighting some interesting relationships and the changing of gender norms in the 1940s. It never hits on any of the interesting pieces quite as much as I wanted it to, but it's there. The acting is solid, the writing is decent, the cinematography is efficient. There's very little exciting about this, which is kind of disappointing, but there's also not that much to complain about either. For anyone particularly interested in this time period, it's probably worth checking out.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Swing Shift > Closer

Swing Shift < Safe

Swing Shift > Creation

Swing Shift < Show Me Love

Swing Shift < Spellbound (2002)

Swing Shift < Summer Stock

Swing Shift < Family Business

Swing Shift > The Tragedy of Macbeth

Swing Shift < Kajaki

Swing Shift > Kanal

Swing Shift < The Impossible

Final spot: #1360 out of 3678, or 63%.