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Swimming Upstream
2003 film by Russell Mulcahy
Swimming Upstream is a 2003 Australian biographicaldrama film written by Tony Fingleton and directed by Russell Mulcahy.
It stars Jesse Spencer, Geoffrey Rush, and Judy Davis.
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It shows the life of Fingleton (Spencer) from childhood to adulthood, and dealing with a topsy-turvy family. It is based on Fingleton's autobiography of the same name.
Plot
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.
Harold was physically and emotionally abusive, e