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Breakthrough
MEANRANK
67/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 46, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 53, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A teenage boy falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is submerged for far longer than medical science suggests is survivable. His desperate mother arrives at the hospital as doctors are losing hope. She refuses to accept his prognosis and begins to pray fervently at his bedside, urging her son to fight, as his community rallies around them, hoping for a miracle against impossible odds.
Details
- Director
- Roxann Dawson
- Writer
- Grant Nieporte
- Based on
- The Impossible (2017 novel) by Joyce Smith
- Released
- 10 April 2019
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $14.0M
- Box office
- $49.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 win from 6 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2019 | Best Original Song | "I'm Standing with You" | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2019 | Best Song | "I'm Standing with You" | Nominee |
| GMA Dove Awards 2019 | Inspirational Film of the Year | Breakthrough | Winner |
| Movieguide Awards 2019 | Best Movie For Families | Breakthrough | Nominee |
| Movieguide Awards 2019 | Epiphany Prize for Inspiring Movies | Breakthrough | Nominee |
| Movieguide Awards 2019 | Grace Prize | Chrissy Metz, for her role as Joyce Smith | Nominee |
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6 awards — Breakthrough
×| Best Original Song | "I'm Standing with You" | Nominee |
| Best Song | "I'm Standing with You" | Nominee |
| Inspirational Film of the Year | Breakthrough | Winner |
| Best Movie For Families | Breakthrough | Nominee |
| Epiphany Prize for Inspiring Movies | Breakthrough | Nominee |
| Grace Prize | Chrissy Metz, for her role as Joyce Smith | Nominee |