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True Blue is a film of genre Drama directed by Joseph S. Cardone with Johan Leysen
True Blue (1996)
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Add to a movie listTrue Blue is a 1996 British sport drama film based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson. It follows the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and the disagreement amongst the Oxford team known as the "Oxford mutiny". For the US DVD release, the film was retitled Miracle at Oxford.
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True Blue is a film adaptation of Topolski's book of the same name. Although names and events were changed, it tells the story of the 1987 Oxford Cambridge Boat Race, from the perspective of Topolski and Macdonald. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, this low-budget film was made by Film4 Productions, starring Dominic West, and Josh Lucas.Actors
Johan Leysen
(Daniel Topolski)
Bill Nighy
(Jeremy Saville)
Geraldine Somerville
(Ruth MacDonald)
Pamela Gidley
Dominic West
(Donald MacDonald)
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