Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It&s wartime Germany & a group of kids calling themselves the Swing Kids get together at their local dance & swing to the sounds of the American 30&s Actors Robert Sean Leonard Christian Bale Frank Whaley & Barbara Hershey Director Thomas Carter Certificate 12 years & over Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Danish ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour 49 minutes (approx)
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017' Smith's finest Extraordinary truly marvellous' Observer ' Superb' Financial Times ' Breathtaking' TLS ' Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour' There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth & On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers
- but only one Tracey has talent The other has ideas about rhythm & time black bodies & black music what it means to belong what it means to be free It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties never to be revisited but never quite forgotten either Bursting with energy rhythm & movement Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet It is a story about music & identity race & class those who follow the dance & those who lead it
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017' Smith's finest Extraordinary truly marvellous' Observer ' Superb' Financial Times ' Breathtaking' TLS ' Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour' There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth & On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers
- but only one Tracey has talent The other has ideas about rhythm & time black bodies & black music what it means to belong what it means to be free It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties never to be revisited but never quite forgotten either Bursting with energy rhythm & movement Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet It is a story about music & identity race & class those who follow the dance & those who lead it
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017' Smith's finest Extraordinary truly marvellous' Observer ' Superb' Financial Times ' Breathtaking' TLS ' Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour' There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth & On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers
- but only one Tracey has talent The other has ideas about rhythm & time black bodies & black music what it means to belong what it means to be free It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties never to be revisited but never quite forgotten either Bursting with energy rhythm & movement Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet It is a story about music & identity race & class those who follow the dance & those who lead it
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017' Smith's finest Extraordinary truly marvellous' Observer ' Superb' Financial Times ' Breathtaking' TLS ' Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour' There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 Mumsnet Book of the Month for July 2017A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth & On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers
- but only one Tracey has talent The other has ideas about rhythm & time black bodies & black music what it means to belong what it means to be free It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties never to be revisited but never quite forgotten either Bursting with energy rhythm & movement Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet It is a story about music & identity race & class those who follow the dance & those who lead it
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Spinning of from the universe of Sunstone comes a slice of life romantic story about a couple trying to regain the sexual energy from the beginning of their relationship by swinging with other couples An emotional journey of two people fighting to stay in love About the Author Matt Hawkins is an incessant doodler He lives in Kansas City with Alicia Henry & Lily By day he works at a C3 a children&s marketing agency as an illustratorpapertoy designer By night he stays up way too late in his attic studio making designer papertoys for his own amusement & freelance papertoys for clients ...

If you&ve ever wondered what men get up to when they&re out on the town look no further Spend a painfully funny night on the tiles with Mike Trent & friends as the "swingers" hit the clubs & bars looking for love or even a little eye contact When they&re not trying to chat up women & consoling each other about lost loves It&s the funniest truest male-bonding film of the year It&s men behaving hilariously! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Struggling actor Mike (Jon Favreau) left a six-year relationship behind in New York when he moved to Hollywood in search of stardom But he cannot get over his ex Michelle who has now embarked on a new relationship In an attempt to cheer Mike up his friends take him out for a night on the town hitting various clubs & bars Their attempts to find solace in the arms of willing females find varying degrees of success ...

Swingin& At The Speakeasy is a 3CD 62 track download compilation of jazz & swing capturing the roaring sound from the 1920&s & 1930’s It brings together classic tracks from the likes of Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington & many other great musicians & bands who defined an era The 1920s was the art-deco decade the era of prohibition of spats & pin-striped suits of boas bowties & bounders
- & above all it was the era of some truly great & ground-breaking music Spilling out of the speakeasy dive-bars of New York & Chicago came a new & liberating sound – the sound of ‘ The Charleston’ & the sound of swingin’ sizzling Jazz
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You & your fellow voodoo spirits have traveled back in time to poke a little fun at the hepcats of the 1950s cocktail culture Your mystical influences will link these lounge-goers into social cliques that give you access to the coolest party-people that all the hipsters want to be near Mix a few drinks rack up the magical monkey points & crown yourself king of the Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge Score monkeys to hang on your martini glass by adding Jivecat contacts to your clique & claiming Trend cards through skillful manipulation of your lounge contacts Be the player with the most monkeys at the end of the round in which a player scores their fifteenth monkey & be crowned the winner! Players are dealt a hand of four cards & on their turn use those cards for their face value to claim low-brow contacts in the lounges or use the card&s special powers to claim Jivecat contacts & cast spells (Zombie Rada Cheval & Voodoo) For example a 4 Zombie can be used to claim a "4" contact in the Lava Lounge Card values can be added & subtracted from each other allowing players to pinpoint just the right contacts to advance their plans However the player could use the card for its Zombie spell instead By paying a skull they can place the card in their tableau as an extension of their hand allowing them to use that card&s value for many turns in the future In these ways players create "cliques" of linked contacts in & among the four cocktail lounges (Lava Cocoa Tiki & Neptune) trying to schmooze their way to the Jivacat contacts that score points The contacts are limited though so several players may be angling for a specific Jivecat During play a series of Skull Cards allow players to gain skull token reward that power their voodoo spells & a Trend Card track presents players with monkey rewards for achieving specific contact configurations The Trend cards also provide special bonus abilities to the players if they can maintain the required configurations Each player has a martini glass to hold the contact chips & scores are kept through hanging cocktail monkeys on the rim of the player&s glass Orange monkeys are 1 point & blue monkeys are 5 points Game end is triggered when one player reaches fifteen monkey points The round is completed bonus monkeys are rewarded for trends that have been maintained & the player with the most monkeys wins To add to the cocktail themed fun each card also has a different cocktail recipe for adult players to mix & enjoy Players 2-5 Suggested ages 21 Playing time 60 minutes ...