Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story
6.8
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.
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Cast
20 people
Caroline Dhavernas
Marilyn Bell
Known for
Hannibal
The Pacific
Amy Sloan
Joan
Known for
The Heartbreak Kid
Gothika
Karen Walton
Pedro Gandol
Manon Briand
Graeme Somerville
George Bryant
Also in
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The Courage to Love
Irene Litinsky
Vlasta Vrana
George McBlair
Known for
Secret Window
Ulysses 31
Kent McQuaid
Myron Peters
Known for
Blood Quantum
End of the Line
Vlasta Vrána
George McBlair
Lisa Bronwyn Moore
Patsy MacKinnon
Known for
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
A Walk on the Moon
Ron White
Gus Ryder
Known for
Joan of Arc
Screamers
Manon Briand Director · Karen Walton Writer
First release February 4, 2001 · Produced in Canada
Production
Cookie Jar Entertainment
Production
Canada
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · February 4, 2001
TV
No release date listed for United States.
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