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First Look: Swimming Upstream
Release Date: February 4, 2005 (limited)
Distributor: United Artists (MGM)
Film Genre: Family Drama
Director(s): Russell Mulcahy
Screenwriter: Anthony Fingleton
Cast: ffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl,
David Hoflin, Craig Horner, Brittany Byrnes, Deborah Kennedy, Mark Hembrow,
Mitchell Dellevergin, Thomas Davidson, Kain O'Keefe, Robert Quinn, Keeara
Byrnes, Des Drury
Synopsis:
Swimming Upstream tells the compelling and inspirational true story of
Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner
strength to become a champion. Based on Anthony Fingleton's novel of the
same name and set in 1950s Brisbane, Australia, Swimming Upstream stars
Jesse Spencer as Tony, a young man who beats the odds to become a champion
swimmer in spite of his overbearing, alcoholic father (Geoffrey Rush)
and long-suffering but quietly heroic mother (Judy Davis). Overshadowed
in his father's eyes by his brothers, it's only when Tony displays an
extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his
father's heart - and maybe even Olympic gold.
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