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Writers (WGA):
Greg Louganis (book) and
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Release Date:
19 March 1997 (USA) more
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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
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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95 min
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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
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Referenced in The Pleasure of Your Company (2006) more

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Informative Bio, 26 March 1999
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Author: harry-76 from Cleveland, Ohio USA

"Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story" contains much information on this famous American Olympic diving champion. It covers not only his professional career but also his formative years as a youngster. His home background includes his relationship with his foster parents, and presents incidents which helped shape the athlete's adult attitudes and behaviors. Alan Hines' script tends to be uncommonly sad and sentimental; indeed, to go by Hines, this champ certainly did not have much fun either as a child or adolescent. In fact, his adult life was also depicted as being loaded with dismal challenges. It's all a rather gloomy picture painted of this celebrity, who appears to be a very nice guy having one sad thing after another happen to him. Still, the TV script claims to be based on a book coauthored by Louganis himself, so one hopes that this presentation is reasonably authentic. Mario Lopez acquits himself well as a sensitive, grown up Louganis.

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