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Backwards (2012) 4.7
When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course. Director:Ben HickernellWriter:Sarah Megan Thomas |
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Abi Brooks
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Geoff
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Coach Spriklin
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Hannah
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Cox
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Preston
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Meghan
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Susan
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Giselle
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Rude Waitress
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When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles to adjust to life off the race course.
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EnglishRelease Date:
21 September 2012 (USA) See more »Box Office
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$23,190 (USA) (21 September 2012)Gross:
$61,465 (USA) (5 October 2012)Company Credits
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I really love sports movies - who doesn't? - the struggle, the competition, the training, the lift, and drama with that is great too. But Backwards is well-named, it really does have the genre backwards - it is mostly a snooze fest. I've rowed a lot and it is gruelling, tough, and ridiculous when it comes to how fit you have to be - don't really get that from this - it's too placid, inactive, and, honestly, frankly dull.
I cannot recommend this on any level- the script is dull, the plot both clichéed and weak, but really it's the acting that lets this down most
- neither lead has any charisma at all, they both just are there.
All in all, this is a film that had a good idea to make a sports movie about rowers, like Varsity Blues, but fails to translate that passion into the script or up to the screen.