Swim Team

Swim Team2016

Film · Documentary, Drama, Family · 90 min · Oct 9, 2016
7.4
4 platform(s) · 6 ratings 200 votes
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To level the playing field, they had to get in the water.

SWIM TEAM chronicles the overwhelming struggles and extraordinary triumphs of 3 young athletes with autism and shows how a swim team can bring hope to a community.

Lara Stolman
Director

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Robert Abele · Los Angeles Times 80.00/100.00

It’s a touching glimpse at a community solution to an inclusion problem, where the water’s more than just fine.

Christy Lemire · RogerEbert.com 75.00/100.00

Director Lara Stolman explores this paradox — that these young men must submerge themselves in the water to emerge as the best possible versions of themselves — with her modest documentary feature debut.

Ben Kenigsberg · The New York Times 70.00/100.00

Swim Team mostly aims to educate and inspire; on those counts, it succeeds.