英勇少年
Regisseur/in:
Manon Briand
Dramatiker:
Karen Walton
Schauspieler/in:
Caroline Dhavernas
/
Amy Sloan
/
Vlasta Vrana
Genre:
Drama
/
Adventure
/
Sports
Region:
Kanada
Sprache:
Englisch
Länge: 1h 30m
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2001-02-04
IMDb: tt0215835
Übersicht
This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.