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starring: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl, Deborah Kennedydirected by: Russell Mulcahy
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792867074
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0792867076
Label: Mgm Entertainment
Manufacturer: Mgm Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mgm Entertainment
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 59833
Studio: Mgm Entertainment
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Description:
The inspirational true story of a swimmer's quest for Olympic gold, Swimming Upstream is a 'gripping' (The New York Times) tale of emotional triumph. Academy Award® winner* Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis deliver 'terrific performances' (New York Post) in this haunting meditation on dreams, determination and defeating the odds. As the target of his father Harold's (Rush) drunken abuse, young Tony Fingleton (Jesse Spencer) escapes to the underwater solitudeof the local pool, where he aspires to win his father's love by becoming a national swimming champion. But when his cruel father pits Tony against his own brother in a competition to make the Olympicteam, Tony must find the courage to swim his way to victory and out of his father's emotionally crippling net. *1996: Actor, Shine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Very good
About overcoming poverty, alcholism, family. The movie could actually have scored a little better, better than 4 stars - it was a bit too long I think. But it keeps your attention and has great acting peformances too.
Rating: - Great film!
This is a great movie made in Australia. Swimming upstream is approximately 97 minutes and is rated PG-13. It's a about two brothers that fight for their father's affections. Because their father is an alcoholic, he is short tempered, and mean. He favors one son over the other during their growing up years, and it shows throughout their lifetime. This movie takes place mostly in the pool. Where two brothers are coached by their father to compete in local, and out of town swim meets. The trials of ... Read More
Rating:  - Watching Uphill
Swimming and writing poetry share one important characteristic; both activities can be richly satisfying to the practitioner while providing little, if any, spectator appeal. This limitation delivers a crippling blow to Swimming Upstream - without the obligatory water-churning competitions all that remains is a collection of drunken rampages and psychological tortures meted out by a deranged and permanently crippled father (Geoffrey Rush).
The film rests entirely on Rush's shoulders, ... Read More
Rating:  - Great movie!
Wonderful story, fantastic acting. The amazing true story of a young man who yearned all his life for the acceptance of his alcoholic father. He becomes one of the greatest swimmers in Australian history. The human spirit is amazing.
Rating: - Good son, bad dad . . .
You wonder about any film that claims to be "based on a true story" how much of it is really true, and one feels this way about Tony Fingleton's account of his achievement as a championship swimmer in 1960s Australia. Beautifully filmed, with international stars Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, and with plausible performances by young actors with movie magazine good looks *and* the apparent ability to swim like professionals, this film is both entertaining and dramatic in ways that seem too perfect to ... Read More
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