Bening is a sixtysomething on a mission to swim from Cuba to Florida, Foster her stoical coach, in this real-life drama of friendship and endurance
), but the themes – human endurance, daunting physical challenges, needlessly reckless flirtations with death – provide a link to their previous work. The film tells the real-life story of Diana Nyad , a retired endurance swimmer who decided, aged 60, to get back in the water and attempt, once again, the gruelling 110-mile crossing from Cuba to Florida.
It’s a swim that takes more than two solid days, through waters populated by sharks and poisonous jellyfish. It defeated her once, at the prime of her fitness. But Diana is ferociously single-minded, making her a formidable athlete but an absolute nightmare at parties. Her best friend and trainer, Bonnie , repeatedly has to remind Diana that there are other possible conversational subjects apart from the remarkable achievements of Diana Nyad.
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