'Breakthrough' trivia and fun facts

Based on a novel

The film is based on the Joyce Smith's novel 'The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother's Faith and Her Child's Resurrection' (2017).

... and based on real facts

Roxann Dawson's film is also based on incredible real facts that actually happens in Lake St. Louis: a 14-years-old teenager drowned and he was dead for almost an hour. The doctors told he was dead but his mother came into the room, prayed for his life and suddenly the kid breathed again.

Film debut

'Breakthrough is the film debut of director Roxann Dawson. Until this moment, she has been directed tv series as 'House of Cards' and 'S.H.I.E.L.D Agents'.