Alex: The Spirit of a Champion

Alex: The Spirit of a Champion (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
New Zealand ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Megan Simpson Huberman

Written By:
Ken Catran
Tessa Duder

Actors:
Alison Bruce ..... Female Journalist
Bruce Phillips ..... Mr. Archer
Cathy Godbold ..... Maggie Benton
Chris Haywood ..... Mr. Jack
Elizabeth Hawthorne ..... Mrs. Benton
Grant Tilly ..... Mr. Upjohn
Greg Johnson ..... Male Journalist
Josh Picker ..... Andy
Kim Hanson ..... Julia
Lauren Jackson ..... Alex Archer
Mark Wright ..... Male Commentator
May Lloyd ..... Mrs. Archer
Patrick Smith ..... Mr. Benton
Rima Te Wiata ..... Female Commentator

Synopsis:

Alex (Lauren Jackson) is a well-rounded girl in addition to being an Olympic-quality competitor. She takes ballet, plays on the school hockey team, and somehow finds time to perform in the school's production of The Mikado. Currently, she is one of the best swimmers in her class in all of New Zealand, and she's confident of a place on the Olympic team, but her coach (Chris Haywood) is worried that she's spreading herself too thin. Normally, competition-level swimmers have time for their classwork and for swimming, and precious little for anything else. In addition to her other non-swimming activities, Alex is even finding time to study Italian in preparation for the Rome Olympics. While a little confidence in an athlete is a good thing, this level of smugness is dangerous, and her cozy world is shattered when an equally good swimmer (Catherine Godbold) moves back to New Zealand from Singapore and begins competing against her.

Alex Archer is a 15-year-old Kiwi who has her heart set on winning gold in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Unlike today's professionally-trained swimmers, Alex is expected to not only train, but keep up with her schoolwork, piano lessons and ballet classes. Her training conditions are primitive, and it doesn't help her that Alex's family are battlers who fail to share her dream. And Alex has a worse problem to face - the death of her boyfriend. Will Alex achieve her dream?

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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