Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story

(2001)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Adventure, телевизионный фильм

Year: 2001

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: Canada

Director: Manon Briand

Cast: Caroline Dhavernas, Amy Sloan, Грэм Соммервиль, Власта Врана, Kent McQuaid, Lisa Bronwyn Moore, Ron White, Claudia Besso, Chip Chuipka, Дженнифер Морхауз

Plot

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.