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Jan 1, 2024 · For filmmaker Bryce McGuire, the release of Night Swim (now streaming on Peacock) is the culmination of a decade-long journey that started with a short film staged inside and around a...
- The Swimmer (1968) 🎬 Directed by: Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack (uncredited) 🌟 Starring: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule. In “The Swimmer,” Burt Lancaster delivers a powerful performance as Ned Merrill, a seemingly successful suburbanite who decides to swim his way home through his neighbors’ pools.
- Pride (2007) 🎬 Directed by: Sunu Gonera. 🌟 Starring: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Kimberly Elise. “Pride” is based on true events surrounding Jim Ellis, played by Terrence Howard, an African-American who starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
- Swimfan (2002) 🎬 Directed by: John Polson. 🌟 Starring: Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby. “Swimfan” follows Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford), a high school swimmer who has a brief affair with Madison Bell (Erika Christensen), a new student.
- On a Clear Day (2005) 🎬 Directed by: Gaby Dellal. 🌟 Starring: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Billy Boyd. “On a Clear Day,” tells an uplifting story of personal growth and redemption.
Apr 5, 2024 · McGuire landed Wyatt Russell and Banshees of Inisherin Oscar nominee Kerry Condon to star – and then asked them to play creepy games of Marco Polo and wrestle with the world’s most diabolical...
- 'The Swimmers'
- 'I, Tonya'
- 'The Theory of Everything'
- 'The Pursuit of Happyness'
- 'Freedom Writers'
- 'Race'
- 'A Beautiful Mind'
- 'Just Mercy'
- 'The Blind Side'
- '42'
In this touching Netflix film, two young Syrian sisters, Yusra (Nathalie Issa) and Sarah Mardini (Manal Issa), venture on a turbulent journey from their war-torn home country — where their house was torn into pieces during the civil war — to the 2016 Olympics. When the engine of a broken-down lifeboat overloaded with passengers stops working in the...
In one of Margot Robbie's finest performances to date, shesteps into the shoes of Tonya Harding in this 2017 film that tells the intense story of Harding's astonishing rise and heartbreaking fall. After her abusive mother, Lavona Golden, forces her into the realm of ice skating, Harding becomes a well-known competitive ice skater. Except, unfortuna...
In this beautifully written drama starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, viewers get an outlook into the early life of science genius Stephen Hawking and the famous physicist's heartwarming relationship with his wife Jane Wilde. Set in the 1960s, The Theory of Everything follows 21-year-old Hawking as he navigates through life and first learns...
Will andJaden Smith bringChris andChristopher Gardner's story to the big screen in this tear-jerking 2006 movie. Centering around the struggles of a real-life American businessman and motivational speaker during the 1980s, The Pursuit of Happynessdepicts Gardner's troubled life (which circumstances force him to live out in the streets with his son)...
Based on a book named The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them, written by a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell, this 2007 film follows Hilary Swank's real-life character and her class of at-risk student...
Centering around Jesse Owens' (played by Stephan James) journey to become the best track and field athlete in history as he impresses many with his tremendous potential — including early-1930s Ohio State University's coach, Larry Snyder (Jason Sudeikis) — Race tells the admirable story of a gifted Olympics-material athlete and his battle against ra...
Russell Crowe steps into the shoes of John Nash, a brilliant and asocial mathematician, in A Beautiful Mind. Narrating Nash's story from his time as a Mathematics student in graduate school at Princeton in the late 1940s to his Nobel Prize win in 1994, the 2001 film takes viewers on a mind-blowing trip. Highlighting the fact that extraordinary thin...
Michael B. Jordan is Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights defense attorney, in Just Mercy.The powerful film centers around Walter McMillian's (Jamie Foxx) court case where Stevenson fights to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner. Based on real-life events, this gripping movie is guaranteed to bring anyone to tears. Evoking all the feelings, Just ...
A homeless troubled boy becomes an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick in the deeply moving The Blind Side. Centering around Michael Oher's (Quinton Aaron) incredibly inspiring success story and the loving people around him who helped him attain life-long accomplishments, this 2009 film is undoubtedly one of the most inspira...
Dealing with heavy themes of racism and prejudice, 42 focuses on the story of Jackie Robinson (wonderfully played by the late film star Chadwick Boseman) and his journey to becoming the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball — signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers — in modern times. Enthralling and powerful, 42is much more than a sports flick — ...
- Daniela Gama
- Senior List Writer
Nov 17, 2022 · This is the story of how she did it. It’s the middle of the Syrian Civil War. In a leisure centre in Damascus, Yusra Mardini is getting ready to compete in a local swimming race. She pulls on ...
- Vicky Jessop
- 2 min
Nov 1, 2009 · November 01, 2009 9:18 PM. A new drama based on a true story stars Oscar nominee Terrence Howard as an inner city Philadelphia swim coach who helps his young team members discover their inner...
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