BREAKTHROUGH Clip and Featurettes Watch the new BREAKTHROUGH clip and featurettes! The film, directed by Roxann Dawson, stars Topher Grace, Chrissy Metz, Josh Lucas, Mike Colter, and Dennis Haysbert. BREAKTHROUGH will be released in theaters on April 17. When he was 14, Smith drowned in Lake St. Louis and was dead for nearly an hour. According to reports at the time, CPR was performed 27 minutes to no avail. Then the youth’s mother, Joyce Smith, entered the room, praying loudly. Suddenly, there was a pulse, and Smith came around.