Backwards Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Amy Renner

Oct. 27, 2012

Backwards

Release Date: Friday, September 21, 2012 New York / Los Angeles

James Van Der Beek, Glenn Morshower, Sarah Megan Thomas, Margaret Colin, Ben Hickernell, Wynn Everett

PG Romance 1 hr, 29 m

4.3

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Plot

What's the story about?

Abigail Brooks (Sarah Megan Thomas) has spent her lifetime trying to win an Olympic rowing medal, sacrificing friendship, love, and a "normal life" along the way. When she is named an alternate on the Olympic team she quits in haste. Defeated, Abi moves back home with her widowed, workaholic mother (Margaret Colin). Tension builds as Abi's mother urges her to "move on" from the rowing life that Abi's father, a coach, introduced her to. Unable to do so, but needing an immediate job, Abi seizes an open crew coach position at her alma mater, Union High. There, the head of athletics is her old boyfriend, Geoff (James Van Der Beek). Abi trains her high school rowers in an obsessive fashion, taking two girls, Hannah (Alexandra Metz) and Susan (Meredith Apfelbaum), under her wing. After the girls lose an important regional race, Abi reinvents herself as a coach, and, in the process, learns to have fun again both on the water and off.

Cited as official plot version from backwardsthemovie.com

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Backwards.

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Sarah Megan Thomas
... Abi Brooks

Equity, A Call to Spy
James Van Der Beek
... Geoff

Labor Day, Bad Hair
G
Glenn Morshower
... Coach Spriklin

On Fire, Bomb City
M
Margaret Colin
... Mrs. Brooks

Three Wiser Men and a Boy, Blue Car
W
Wynn Everett
... Reba

Crew Behind the Film

The Backwards behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Ben Hickernell last directed What We Found and Lebanon, Pa.. The film's writer Sarah Megan Thomas last wrote A Call to Spy.

Director: Ben Hickernell
Screenwriter: Sarah Megan Thomas

Studio: Dada Films
Production Companies: —

Additional Information

MPA Rating: PG Parental Guidance Suggested for some mild language
Runtime: 1 hr, 29 m
Tagline: Not available
Also known as: Not available
Language: English

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Production Details

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Production Updates

Dec 2004

Completed

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Release Dates

When was the film released?

Backwards was released in New York / Los Angeles on Friday, September 21, 2012. There were 12 other movies released on the same date, including Trouble With the Curve, Dredd and House at the End of the Street.

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2012-09-21 New York / Los Angeles

United States

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