This is weird. Every once in a while I pull a Paul Harvey’s “rest of the story” looking for extra details. In this case I was curious if Jonathan Searle played the older brother or the younger. So I went to IMDB (Internet Movie Database) and looked it up.
IMDB says that Chris Rebello played the younger brother Michael Brody and Jay Mello played the older brother Sean Brody. It also says that there was a John Searle (born 1937) who played a bit part in the movie.
This ain’t even close to what this news story says! I have no idea which account is correct - I just thought it curious.
Additionally, IMDB search results for “Jonathan Searle” shows a Jonathan Searle (Visual Effects, Accident (2017)), a Jonathan Searles (II) (Special Effects, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)), and a Jonathan Searles (I) (Writer, The Traveler MacWhirr (2012)).
No Jonathan Searle - actor.
Curiouser and Curiouser....
I’ve been to where that was filmed. There is a lake at Universal Studios where that and the scene where the girl was attacked by the shark by the buoy.
Searle (right) and his real-life brother, Steven, memorably played two pranksters who caused mass panic on the beach after swimming into the ocean with a cardboard fin.