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Breakthrough (2019)

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When her 14-year-old son drowns in a lake, a faithful mother prays for him to come back from the brink of death and be healed.

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  • Chrissy Metz and Marcel Ruiz in Breakthrough (2019)
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  • Mike Colter and Marcel Ruiz in Breakthrough (2019)
  • Marcel Ruiz in Breakthrough (2019)
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Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar.

Another 2 wins & 10 nominations.

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12 April 2020 | krocheav
8
| Breakthrough - Strong on Outcomes
Prolific actor/director Roxann Dawson (Star Trek: Voyager) shows a good flair for being a first-class actor's director in this beautifully produced, performed, and photographed production. A strong cast brings what some might call a predictable story to vivid life. Any story based on factual and relatively inexplicable occurrences --based on a strong faith premise - can't help but feature a certain degree of predicable asides - for these are determined by the amazing factual outcomes at its core. There will always be doubters when it comes to incidents that involve supernatural intervention and this will vary with the degree of faith held by the viewer.

Thankfully, this production only features one or two scenes that perhaps begin to fall into the trap of over sentimentalising certain situations. But convincing performances and a generally powerful fact-based script lift it over and above any contrivances. What comes across perfectly, is the always difficult to achieve embodiment of repaired relationships - especially in this case, involving a damaged adopted family member.

Might be worth seeing by all in need of genuinely inspirational entertainment. Others, just stay away or go to a crowd pleasers comic-book action flick if you really want banality. Features Diane Warren's 2019 Academy Award-nominated song "I'm Standing With You" as performed by Chrissy Metz.

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Due to Disney's completed acquisition of the Fox owned film and television assets (including 20th Century Fox and its subsidiaries) and further release date changes for future 20th Century Fox films, this marks the last time both a 20th Century Fox film and a Disney film have been theatrically released on the same day, with the DisneyNature documentary film Penguins (2019) releasing on the same day as this film.

Quotes

Joyce Smith: Now's not a good time.
Pastor Jason Noble: I know... that's why I'm here.

Goofs

When the pastor and his family are eating breakfast, there is a plate of strawberries by his daughter. When the kids get up, the plate changes to strawberries AND bananas, then back to just strawberries. This is probably not another divine sign.

Soundtracks

Love Wins
Written by Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, and Brett James
Performed by Carrie Underwood
Courtesy of Capitol Records Nashville
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

Storyline

Plot Summary

Synopsis (WARNING: Spoilers)

Genres

Biography | Drama

Details

Release Date:

17 April 2019

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$14,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,282,333 21 April 2019

Gross USA:

$40,713,082

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$50,444,358

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