Hi! Just wanted to pass on the name of a movie I watched last night- "Swimming Upstream". It was a good flick based on a true story about a champion backstroker from Australia. It portrayed his life from childhood and his endless pursuit to please his father. It was motivating to see the guy train so hard.
Does anyone know of any other good movies about swimming or swimmers?
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According to imdb.com a remake of "The Swimmer" is in production with Alec Baldwin.
The plot summary for the 1968 version is given as:
A pathetic middle aged loser, suffering mental delusions, decides to swim home via his neighbors' pools. He was met at each estate with a spate of emotions; great affection, indifference, snobbery, rejection, disgust, and jeering laughter. Many of these feelings either startled or shook him to the bone, but none so much as what he felt upon arriving home. Splendid drama with great performances and slicing dialogue. Definitely one of Lancaster's top pictures.
Roger Ebert gives it four stars and says:
What we really have here, then, is a sophisticated retelling of the oldest literary form of all: the epic. A hero sets off on a journey. He has many strange adventures along the way, during which he learns the tragic nature of life. At last he arrives at his goal, older and wiser and with many a tale to tell. The journey Cheever's swimmer makes has been made before in other times and lands by Ulysses, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Augie March.
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According to imdb.com a remake of "The Swimmer" is in production with Alec Baldwin.
The plot summary for the 1968 version is given as:
A pathetic middle aged loser, suffering mental delusions, decides to swim home via his neighbors' pools. He was met at each estate with a spate of emotions; great affection, indifference, snobbery, rejection, disgust, and jeering laughter. Many of these feelings either startled or shook him to the bone, but none so much as what he felt upon arriving home. Splendid drama with great performances and slicing dialogue. Definitely one of Lancaster's top pictures.
Roger Ebert gives it four stars and says:
What we really have here, then, is a sophisticated retelling of the oldest literary form of all: the epic. A hero sets off on a journey. He has many strange adventures along the way, during which he learns the tragic nature of life. At last he arrives at his goal, older and wiser and with many a tale to tell. The journey Cheever's swimmer makes has been made before in other times and lands by Ulysses, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Augie March.
