Swing Shift poster
Director Jonathan Demme
Writer Nancy Dowd

Swing Shift

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

Release Date: 1984-04-13

Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on Kay finally dates her trumpet playing foreman and life gets complicated

Casting

  • Kurt Russell
    Lucky Lockhart
  • Ed Harris
    Jack Walsh
  • Holly Hunter
    Jeannie Sherman
  • Goldie Hawn
    Kay Walsh
  • Stephen Tobolowsky
    French deMille / Documentary Narrator
  • Penny Johnson Jerald
    Genevieve
  • Fred Ward
    Biscuits Toohey
  • Christine Lahti
    Hazel Zanussi
  • Lisa Pelikan
    Violet Mulligan
  • Roger Corman
    Mr. MacBride