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#FILMS ABOUT RUNNING MOVIE#
Personal Bestįeaturing Olympic hurdler Patrice Donnelly in one of the lead roles, this 1982 movie focuses on a group of women trying to qualify for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. A prison warden spots his talent and allows the felon to train for the Olympic Trials. Larry 'Rain' Murphy (Peter Strauss), who is serving a life imprisonment for the first degree murder of his abusive father, relieves the boredom of prison life by running laps around the prison recreation yard. The Emmy Award-winning made-for-TV movie is another which combines prison with running life. The Athlete also charts Bikila's paralysis following a car accident in 1968 and his journey to later competing in archery, table tennis and winning a cross country sleigh race before his premature death. The film focuses on his 1960 marathon triumph at the Rome Olympics, which he won barefoot to become the first sub-Saharan African to win an Olympic gold medal, and his subsequent defence of the title in Tokyo. The film of the life of Ethiopian distance running icon Abebe Bikila has much to admire. Without Limits explores the gutsy front-running tactics of Prefontaine, his disappointment at the 1972 Munich Olympics and fatal car crash. The Tom Cruise-produced movie focuses on the relationship between Prefontaine (Billy Cruddup) and his coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman (Donald Sutherland). The better of two biopics on the mythologised life of US running maverick Steve Prefontaine. Runners everywhere will appreciate the comedic references to everything from ‘hitting the wall’ to painful blisters. Simon Pegg plays 'Fatboy' Dennis, the affable middle-aged loser who attempts to run a marathon to prove his worth to ex-fiancee Thandie Newton – whom he jilted at the altar. Run FatBoy RunĪ predictable plot should not detract from this moving, funny British rom-com. All played out to Vangelis’ iconic soundtrack, it is quite simply the most iconic running movie in history. Abrahams, a British Jew, overcomes prejudice to clinch victory in the 100m. Liddell wins the 400m title for the glory of God. The Academy Award-winning classic focuses on the stories British sprint duo Eric Liddell and Harald Abrahams on their journey to gold medal success at the 1924 Paris Olympics. One of the most sadistic dentistry scenes in cinematic history provides the more memorable moment of this 70s classic, which neatly draws upon Levy’s memories of the heroic feats of two-time Olympic marathon champion Abeba Bikila to help him escape from the bad guys. Marathon ManĪ US suspense thriller starring Dustin Hoffmann as grad student and running obsessive Thomas 'Babe' Levy, who is pursued by Nazi war criminal Dr Christian Szell over a briefcase of missing diamonds.
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The gripping movie reaches an exciting crescendo when he is promised an early release if he runs for the reformatory institution in a race against a public school. The Bafta Award-winning British New Wave coming-of-age movie may be almost 60 years old, but it remains a timeless classic.įocused on the story of rebellious youth Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay), who is sentenced to a borstal for his role in a bakery robbery, he turns to long-distance running as a means to escape the bleakness of confinement.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner If you've not seen - or at least heard of - these 10 movies, are you even a real athletics fan?!