- Country: Canada
- Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Sport
- Release: 2001-02-04
- Director: Manon Briand
- Writers: Karen Walton
- Language: English
- Stars: Caroline Dhavernas , Amy Sloan , Graeme Somerville , Vlasta Vrana , Kent McQuaid , Lisa Bronwyn Moore , Chip Chuipka , Jennifer Morehouse , Ron White , Claudia Besso
- Runtime: 90 min
- Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations
- AKA: Marilyn Bell: Une histoire de coeur (Canada) , Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story
- Plot:
This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.
- IMDB:tt0215835