2019 · drama · music
Breakthrough
Directed by Roxann Dawson1h 56m2019
Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.
Our read: Breakthrough (2019) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- tender
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