Swimming for Gold

While the main actress is Peyton List whom is American, this is an Australian film. You can find several excellent movies from there in any genre, action, horror, romance, drama, etc... so don't make them think otherwise. This particular movie may not be excellent but it's quite enjoyable if you're looking for a young sports romantic comedy.

This is a movie about a depressed professional swimmer trying to find herself again. It's simple, it's cute, and the romance is not at the forefront of the story. No one should look at the cover of this movie and think, "Oh, the swimming scenes will be the most realistic scenes there are." I did not click on this movie, thinking it would be God's gift to man. I picked it thinking it would be a cute movie with hot shirtless boys. It doesn't need ot be more than what it is, and it is good for what it is. I love the characters I love Peyton in this role of in between Disney and just a teen romance. Not every movie must be hyper-realistic.

Many scenes are filmed in places of outstanding beauty, and the people are really look looking too. The story is engaging and fun to watch. I enjoyed it a lot.

Quite seriously. Don't waste your time. It was predictable, acting was bad and it wasn't even funny. Perhaps if you had young children it may have some redeeming value but we had to walk out half way. It was terrible. Sorry

As a professional swimmer and swimming teacher, I was offended. Australia has always been a reference in the sport, so the least the production team could have done would be to follow two or three days of real training. Or even see how a competition works. Besides, the story and the dramas of the characters don't make any sense.