“It takes many miles to swim to a self.”
The Chronology of Water
6.7
69 votes·2025
·2h 8m
·MovieDrama
Overview
Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.
Commercial Verdict
Disaster
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Significant financial loss
Keywords
sexual abusesuicide attemptheroinabusive fatherswimmerwriterbased on memoir or autobiographydivorcemolestationlgbtalcoholic fatherchild molestation
Cast
Imogen Poots
Lidia Yuknavitch
Thora Birch
Claudia
Jim Belushi
Ken Kesey
Tom Sturridge
Devin
Earl Cave
Philip
Michael Epp
Mike
Charlie Carrick
Andy Mingo
Susannah Flood
Dorothy
Kim Gordon
Photographer
Esmé Creed-Miles
Claire
Jeremy Ang Jones
Chad
Peter Rundle
Randy Reese
Eleanor Hahn
Carol Houck Smith
Anna Wittowsky
Young Lidia
Georgie Dettmer
Sienna Torres
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