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Swimming Upstream

Country: Australia, Language: English, 114 mins

  • Director: Russell Mulcahy
  • Writer: Anthony Fingleton; Diane Fingleton
  • Producer: Howard Baldwin; Karen Elise Baldwin

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This is not an easy film to watch...

Harold Fingleton (the father), starkly played by the excellent Rush - embodies everything that is putrid about man - amplifying how some men should not be fathers.

An opportunity was wasted here...

The form of the perfect man - in all its beauty - played against the monstrosity of man...this could have been staggering comparable study. Ho-hum.

Shame about the split-screen and gimmicky stuff - totally unnecessary - and, ultimately detracts from the power of the film.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart.

Cast & Characters

Geoffrey Rush as Harold Fingleton;
Judy Davis as Dora Fingleton;
Jesse Spencer as Tony Fingleton;
Tim Draxl as John Fingleton;
Deborah Kennedy as Billie;
David Hoflin as Harold Fingleton Jr.;
Craig Horner as Ronald Fingleton;
Brittany Byrnes as Diane Fingleton;
Mitchell Dellevergin as Young Tony;
Thomas Davidson as Young John;
Kain O'Keeffe as Young Harold Jr.;
Robert Quinn as Young Ronald;
Keeara Byrnes as Young Diane;
Mark Hembrow as Tommy;
Simon Burvill-Holmes as Brother Campbell