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NYAD

Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Jodie Foster and Annette Bening bring their formidable talents to this frequently exciting depiction of American longdistance swimmer Diana Nyad’s greatest achievement and her devastating failures.

It’s a fictionalised

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