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  • 2024
  • PG
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 2 h 9 m
  • 2024
  • PG
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 2 h 9 m

Summary Trudy Ederle (Daisy Ridley) was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the staggering achievement – a 21-mile trek fr...

Directed By: Joachim Rønning

Written By: Jeff Nathanson, Glenn Stout

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • PG
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 2 h 9 m
  • 2024
  • PG
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • 2 h 9 m

Young Woman and the Sea

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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Summary Trudy Ederle (Daisy Ridley) was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the staggering achievement – a 21-mile trek fr...

Directed By: Joachim Rønning

Written By: Jeff Nathanson, Glenn Stout

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
16 Reviews
29% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
63
67% Positive
16 Reviews
29% Mixed
7 Reviews
4% Negative
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May 30, 2024
The sort of feel good family film the House of Mouse used to know how to make before the middling box office for Mira Nair’s exquisite 'Queen of Katwe' made them panic and delete all their files on how to inspire young audiences.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
75
May 31, 2024
With “Young Woman and the Sea,” Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle finally gets the movie she deserves.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
75
May 30, 2024
The broader history is there for those who are curious and on its own terms this is a story that will keep you engaged. Much of that has to do with Ridley.
By Lindsey Bahr FULL REVIEW
63
May 31, 2024
Based on Glenn Stout’s nonfiction account of the same title, “Young Woman and the Sea” gets by on the careful engineering of clichés, Daisy Ridley and a really good piece of irresistibly rousing history.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
62
May 30, 2024
Young Woman is a biopic with all sharp edges removed, the kind of non-threatening, inspirational Disney movie that teachers screen for fidgety students on the last day of fourth grade.
By Alonso Duralde FULL REVIEW
60
May 30, 2024
This is one of those movies that proves, when they’ve got a mind to, they can still make them like they used to.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
38
May 30, 2024
The film leaves no room for doubt about what Trudy Ederle will accomplish, and thus creates virtually no dramatic tension in her inevitable rise to the top ranks of women’s swimming.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures
Release Date May 31, 2024
Duration 2 h 9 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline Defy the odds.
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Heartland Film
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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