Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (2001)
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.
- Released
- 2001-02-04
- Genres
- Adventure, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Manon Briand
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 from 8 votes
Cast
- Caroline Dhavernas as Marilyn Bell
- Amy Sloan as Joan
- Graeme Somerville as George Bryant
- Vlasta Vrana as George McBlair
- Kent McQuaid as Myron Peters
- Lisa Bronwyn Moore as Patsy MacKinnon
- Ron White as Gus Ryder
- Claudia Besso as Florence Chadwick
- Chip Chuipka as Syd Bell
- Jennifer Morehouse as Grace Bell
- Natasha Tofflemire as Karen Bell
- Susan Glover as Phyllis Ryder
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