There has long been a division between what is popular with general audiences and what is popular with Voters at the Academy Award. Popular, beloved directors like Alfred Hitchcock glorious never won an OscarFor example, just like actor Samuel L. Acksexone Never won one Although starring in seemingly every great movie so far. One particularly fun example of this phenomenon came with Kurt Russell's film "Swing Shift", "Swing Shift", the box, which earned $ 6.6 million with a $ 15 million budget.

Why did you bombard? The general consensus was that the film failed to fulfill its promising premise. The film referred to the lack of labor during World War II, where women found unexpected power in the workforce before being imposed in traditional roles as the war ended. The film caught the feeling of time and had a few hard ones, but did not nail it in a way that "League of its own" would be a decade later. "Subject to" swing change "is so potentially rich, you hate to see it falling apart in this way", "", " wrote Spikes Benson of the LA Times.

Critics have pointed to a conflict behind the scenes that affect the story; Not only was the script prescribed several times, but also Warner Bros. forced to reshape 30 minutes on the film against director Athonatan Dem. Conflict visions behind the film scattered in the film itself, as it seemed that more critics were noticed. "It's a movie dirt, with vague aspirations to touch and got the impression that there was never a very strong script," wrote Pauline Kael for a newujorer. "There are no high places, there are no exciting moments. The picture only appears from one recessive, underdeveloped scene to another."

Despite the mixed reviews and the disappointment of the box office, Swing Shift still managed to win an Oscar thanks to Christine Lahti. Goldie John may have played the main character, Kay Walsh, but it was Lahti as her new friend, Hazel who stole the show. Even in the reviews that crashed the film, Lahti drew a lot of praise. As Kael wrote for her:

"Goldie Hahn and her film making team have also made a basic mistake in the strategy: they gave the Lesnin Lahti Lahti. Course, Vanessa Redgrave, she is heroically feminine.

The Academy also collected this buzz, which nominated Lahti along with Glenn Clos, Peggy Ashcroft, Lindsay Cruean and Ericeraldin Page for the best actress in accompanying role. Unfortunately, Lahti did not win - the award went to Ashcroft for "Paragraph in India" - and Lahti still remains awaiting the role of the rough role that she hoped to "swing" would be for her.

"I still don't think I had a real role in a breakthrough," she said in an interview in 1985. "Every time I think this is the one, but it's not." Speaking of Swing Shift's reception, she admitted, "I was very surprised and extremely discouraged. The film seemed to have everything goes for it."