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Writers (WGA):
Greg Louganis (book) and
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Release Date:
19 March 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | Sport more
Plot:
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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Cast

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Mario López ... Greg Louganis

Michael Murphy ... Pete Louganis
Rosemary Dunsmore ... Frances Louganis
Jeffrey Meek ... Tom Barrett
Megan Leitch ... Megan

Jonathan Scarfe ... Keith

Fulvio Cecere ... John Anders
Patrick David ... Young Greg Louganis
Rafael Rojas III ... Greg (age 9)
Bruce Weitz ... Ron O'Brien

Andrew Francis ... Bully Boy #1
Nathan Evans ... Bully Boy #2
Noah Dennis ... Bully Boy #3
Kristina Krapic ... Despina (age 11)

Gabrielle Miller ... Despina
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Green/Epstein Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Actual footage of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California, and the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea are used in the film. Actual footage of Greg Louganis diving at the Olympiads and audience reaction is also used in the film. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Pleasure of Your Company (2006) more

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Bomb, 22 September 2009
2/10
Author: sandover from Greece

It is good to sprinkle a bio-pic with real footage. And that's it. The film is so cliché ridden it's suffocating! If a true-account-story has an aim, why, I suppose it has to be something about how one is entangled in history and what this means as maturing, taking decisions and, well, how truth collides with reality to put it that way. Not about a cardboard rough father, a pathetic quasi-phobic mother, a oh-so-gay-in-the-blinking-way young Greg, and a, now manly, now paper thin gay older Greg, a quite off the wall manic,obvious lover - they are not even cartoons, let alone characters! If this is a truly supervised account, then one can't really feel sympathy for this portrait. Unfortunately bad

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