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Swimming Upstream (Original title)
Date: 2002 (Copyright)

Countries: USA, Australia

Directed by: Russell Mulcahy

Production company billing: ©2002. Crusader Entertainment, LLC Crusader Entertainment presents a film by Russell Mulcahy [end] logos: Pacific Film and Television Commission/Queensland Australia MGM Distribution Co. Dolby Digital/DTS In Colour Panavision cameras & lenses Film laboratory: Atlab Australia
Synopsis: The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strengh to become a swimming champion.

Genres:
Drama, Sport
Credits (74)
©/Presented by: Crusader Entertainment, logo: Pacific Film and Television Commission, Queensland Film Corporation, end logo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Executive Producer: Andrew Mason, Executive Producer: William J. Immerman, Executive Producer: Anthony Fingleton, Produced by: Howard Baldwin, Produced by: Karen Baldwin, Paul Pompian, Co-producer: Nick Morton, Line Producer: Carol Hughes, Unit Production Manager: Paul Pompian, Unit Manager: Paul Malane, Production Manager: Jennifer Cornwell, Production Co-ordinator: Kerry Mulgrew, Production Accountant: Elaine Crowther, Location Manager: Jamie Mclennan, Post-production Supervisor: Bronwyn Gerathy, Assistant Director (1st): Carolynne Cunningham, Assistant Director (2nd): Guy Campbell, Script Supervisor: Kira Bohn, Casting: Ann Robinson, Casting: Mullinars Consultants, Screenplay: Anthony Fingleton, Based on the book by: Anthony Fingleton, Diane Fingleton, Director of Photography: Martin Mcgrath, Underwater Photography: Phil Cross, Camera Operator: Phil Cross, Steadicam Operator: Simon Christidis, Gaffer: Ken Moffatt, Stills Photographer: Vince Valituti, Digital Visual Effects: Animal Logic, Special Effects Co-ordinator: Harry Ward, Film Editor: Marcus D'Arcy, Additional Editor: Frayne Dyke-Walker, Production Designer: Roger Ford, Art Director: Laurie Faen, Set Decorator: Kerrie Brown, Construction Manager: John Moore, Costume Designer: Angus Strathie, Costume Supervisor: Eliza Godman, Key Make-up/Hair: Lynne O'Brien, Senior Make-up/Hairdresser: Dallas Stephens, Make-up/Hair Artist: Anita Morgan, Tracey Reeby, Title Design: Animal Logic, End Credits: Optical & Graphic, Split Screen/Digital Optical Effects: Atlab, Film Laboratory: Atlab, Music by: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Additional Music: Mike Slamer, Additional Music: Alan Hewitt, Chris Thompson, Vocals: Chris Thompson, Orchestra Conductor: David Sabee, Music Orchestrated by: Dana Niu, Bronwen Jones, Music Supervision: Arlene Fishbach, Susan Slamer, Sound Recordist: Greg Burgmann, Boom Operator: Paul Jones, 2nd Boom Operator: Glen Townson, Sound Mixer: Peter D. Smith, Additional Mixer: Gethin Creagh, Supervising Sound Editor: Andrew Plain, Stunt Co-ordinator: Chris Anderson, Film Researcher: Christina Norman, Armourer: Julian Summers, Bob Parsons, Publicist: Fiona Searson
Cast (54)
Geoffrey Rush (Harold), Judy Davis (Dora), Jesse Spencer (Tony), Tim Draxl (John), Deborah Kennedy (Billie), David Hoflin (Harold Jr), Craig Horner (Ronald), Brittany Byrnes (Diane), Mitchell Dellevergin (young Tony), Thomas Davidson (young John), Kain O'Keeffe (young Harold Jr), Robert Quinn (young Ronald), Keeara Byrnes (young Diane), Mark Hembrow (Tommy), Simon Burvill-Holmes (Brother Campbell), Bob Newman (Panno), Andrew Nason (burly labourer), Barrie Young, Michael Earnshaw (pub patron), Remi Broadway (Murray Rose), Melissa Thomas (Dawn Fraser), Andrew Booth (Bruce Humphrey), Brett Bullock (Gary Humphrey), Todd Leigh, Steven O'Donnell (lifeguard), Christopher Morris (medic), Anneliese Fegan (nurse), Gyton Grantley, Tudor Vasile (swimmer), Dayle Marriott (Melbourne swimmer), Nick Crilly (Jason Saunders), Laura Donaldson (young girl fan with dog), Courtney Ayre (young girl fan 1), Joanne Dobbin (young girl fan 2), Todd Levi (well-dressed man), Russell Krause, Ron Kelly, Murray Rose, Paul Raynor (reporter), Dawn Fraser (Dawn Fraser's coach), Justine Anderson (tearoom waitress), Chris Herden (North Sydney race starter), Cameron Watt, Christopher Betts, Terry Bone (Valley Pool starter), Peter Marshall (Empire Games race starter), Bruce Wainwright (Empire Games official), Peter Jeremijenko (pool marshall), Bruce Shapiro (pool man), Chas Green, Aaron Aash (striker), Ray McCabbin (Catholic priest), Katherine Lyall-Watson (grocery woman), Raj Ryan (radio commentator)