Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend’s pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decides to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley.

It was 1968, and Old Hollywood was giving way to New Hollywood. Based on a classic American short story by John Cheever (featuring scenes directed by an uncredited Pollack), this cult film is a dreamy, disturbing trip through alienated suburbia, with Burt Lancaster’s Adonis as an eerie memento mori.