'Nyaad' tells a perfect love story in the backdrop of a classic sports story

A decade after she became the first person to swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, without a shark cage

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Diana Nyad's epic journey is recounted in a highly anticipated — and controversial — biopic premiering Friday on Netflix.

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Adapted by Julia Cox from Nyad's memoir, "Find a

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Way," and directed by the husband-and-wife team of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

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the crowd-pleasing sports film "Nyad" dramatizes the triumphs of later life.

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Charismatic but divisive long-distance swimmer.

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After starting a second job as a sports journalist three decades after retiring from marathon swimming,

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Nyad became obsessed with the achievement that had eluded her in 1978 at the age of 28.

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So in 2013, at the age of 64, Nyad achieved this feat.

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