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15 hours ago · A bell will be rung for audiences who saw Nyad, last year’s biopic of ultra-distance swimmer Diana Nyad. That film pressed a complex woman into the shape of a Hollywood heroine to not wholly ...
2 hours ago · For the film’s wondrous rebel Trudy Ederle (a graceful, commanding Daisy Ridley), who became the first woman to swim across the treacherous 21-mile English Channel in 1926, that big dream at ...
2 hours ago · In that regard it joins a long list of classic sports movies, perhaps even more than its recent cousins, the swim-themed Netflix film “Nyad” and George Clooney’s Olympic tale “The Boys in ...
2 hours ago · In completing her headline-seizing swim from Cuba to Florida in 2013, Nyad rode a wave that Ederle started nearly a century earlier by becoming the first woman to swim across the English Channel ...
2 hours ago · But maybe after this and “Nyad,” open water swimming can take a bit of a breather. “Young Woman and the Sea,” a Walt Disney Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association for “thematic elements, some language and partial nudity.”. Running time: 129 minutes. Three stars out of four.
15 hours ago · With more jellyfish, and way less support. Much like E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Nyad,” most people who opt to watch “ Young Woman and the Sea ” will likely know where it ends ...
15 hours ago · A successful film like this is also a stark reminder that movies have only scratched the surface of the fascinating history of women in competitive sports. ... But maybe after this and “Nyad ...
