Starting about two and a half years ago, fellow Causeway Club members Mary Mazzio and Bill Hudson started talking about producing a film about the amazing story of a group of inner city west side of Chicago kids who, through their exposure to the sport of rowing, rose out of the harsh circumstances of their daily existence and found a path to a better adult life.

 

That movie is now trying to get into theaters a a time when most theaters are shuttered but it is nevertheless getting a great critical reception as reflected in the People Magazine article linked here: