Aside from the icky feeling I get watching "American Swing", I really enjoyed it. It's a thorough examination of not only Plato's Retreat and it's owner, Larry Levinson, but of swinging itself. Interviews with, now aged, former club members brings insight into their motivation to share their spouses. The use of stock footage allows you to almost feel like your in between the sweaty bodies. Many interviews with people for the club and those against allows you to make your own judgements.

"Can't get it up."

Interesting if predictable, the doc's most intriguing in its last 10 minutes, as it allows the Plato "survivors" (can't interview any1 who might have been lost to AIDS) to reminisce fondly on their ability to cast aside societal mores and take part in what amounted to 1 of the world's wildest parties. But as the last talking head reminds us: partying/having sex w/ some1 has very little 2 do w/ befriending them - an important difference 2 consider in our Animal House-Madonna-spawn-driven world.

Interesting portrait of a milieu.