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Documentary revisits Manhattan sex club Plato's Retreat

March 30, 2009 By Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times

At first blush, most people probably wouldn't consider a documentary about New York City's most notorious public sex club the ideal "date movie." But that's exactly what Mathew Kaufman calls "American Swing," the nostalgic, often amusing film he co-produced and co-directed with Jon Hart about the legendary swingers' haven Plato's Retreat.

"The movie's got everything," Kaufman said during...

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