Swimming Upstream (2003)

Directors

Russell Mulcahy

Cast

Brittany Byrnes, Craig Horner, David Hoflin, Dawn Fraser, Geoffrey Rush, Jesse Spencer, Judy Davis, Murray Rose, Robert Quinn

The story

The film shows ten years in the life of Anthony Fingleton, from when he was a young boy in the mid-1950s, to the day of the men's 100m backstroke final at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Growing up in Brisbane, Australia, Tony was the second of five children of working-class parents Harold and Dora Fingleton. It was a dysfunctional family, since Harold – who as a child had witnessed his alcoholic mother's degradation as a prostitute – was violent and unable to show equal love to all his children, and favored those showing sporting prowess.

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