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Feb 15, 2018 · Fun fact: This is one of several movies unable to secure the rights to the Olympic name itself; the goal here is “the World Wintersport Games.”. 14. Without Limits (1996) If you’re keeping ...
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The ever-brilliant, deeply missed John Candy and a cast of mostly unknowns star in Jon Turteltaub's familydramedy about Jamaican bobsleighers who brazenly go for the gold even though they've never seen snow. It is so, so cheesy—and also so, so hard to dislike. The cult favorite is oft referenced in modern pop culture.
Will Ferrell and Jon Heder (hot on the heels of surprise cult smash NapoleonDynamite) star in a surrealist farce that's sometimes redundant (straight guys ice skating!), sometimes very funny. This is one of few major features about the Games that didn't secure rights to the Olympics name.
Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney star in Paul Michael Glaser's romantic comedyabout a spoiled figure skater and a sidelined hockey player who are paired to face off against Soviet competitors. Contrived in the extreme, but likely will hook fans of the comfort found in formulaic rom-coms. Spawned a series. Related: The 75 Best Romantic Comedies of All T...
MarielHemingway, Patrice Donnelly and Scott Glenn star in Chinatown scribe Robert Towne's critically acclaimed drama about a team of runners, and a bisexual love triangle. Personal Best is a marvel of tactful character-building.
Winning performances from Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton are the main attraction in Rocketman helmer Dexter Fletcher's flashy, warmhearted biographical sports dramedy inspired by the life of spirited, uncouth British ski jumper Michael "Eddie" Edwards. Sure, it's schmaltzy. Still, you'd have to be pretty cynical not to feel some joy and other emoti...
Kevin Macdonald's harrowing documentary depicts the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics (initially billed as the "Games of Peace and Joy.") The Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization was the subject of Steven Spielberg's acclaimed Munich half a decade later. Winner of the Oscar fo...
Robert Redford and Gene Hackman star in a sports drama that deserves more remembrance than it gets these days, about a ski prodigy who joins the U.S. team to compete internationally. Roger Ebert called Downhill Racer "the best movie ever made about sports—without really being about sports at all." (Fun fact: Seven years before Rocky, Sylvester Stal...
The place where black comedy and the sports biopic meet has a name, and that name is I, Tonya. Based on stranger-than-fiction events, I, Tonya stars Margot Robbie as disgraced figure skater and Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding (Allison Janney won an Oscar for playing her abusive mother). Though Harding was the first American woman in history to comple...
Released in CinemaScope and vibrant color, Kon Ichikawa's milestone sports doc was marketed on its poster, rather regrettably, as "the man's picture every woman will love!" Humanistic Tokyo Olympiad documents the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo; this was a crucial moment for the government to showcase a post-war, rebuilt Japan.
We've seen so many sports biopics over the years that it's rare for one to really stand out. Miracle is based on one of the most inspiring true stories in the history of athletics, the triumph of the U.S. men's hockey team over the Soviet team at the 1980 Olympics during the Cold War (possibly the greatest upset in all of sports). The strength of t...
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- Race (2016) For a movie about no less an Olympic icon than Jesse Owens, Race remains shockingly unknown. Stephan James is quite good as the African American track and field legend who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Games while sticking it to Hitler in the process.
- Miracle (2004) Snicker if you must at Kurt Russell's hairpiece, but director Gavin O'Connor's rousing, rah-rah chronicle of the 1980 U.S. men's hockey team and its unlikely “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid is the kind of sports movie that will get you out of your seat and onto your feet cheering.
- Personal Best (1982) Written and directed by Robert Towne, the screenwriter behind some of the greatest movies of the 1970s (Chinatown, The Last Detail, Shampoo), Personal Best stars Mariel Hemingway, now 58, and Patrice Donnelly, now 70, as two female track and field hopefuls who fall in love while training for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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- Race (2016) 7.1. The remarkable true story of Olympic champion runner Jesse Owens is the subject of Race, a titular double-entendre that also hints at the difficulty of growing up as a young Black man in 1930s America.
- Nadia (1984) 7.2. Alan Cooke's 1984 made-for-television biopic Nadia traces the uplifting rise of prodigious Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci (played Leslie Weiner as a child and Johann Carlo as an adult).
- Without Limits (1998) 7.2. While the Jared Leto-starring Prefontaine came out one year before, Billy Crudup's performance as the infamous Olympic long-distance runner scored even higher ratings, per IMDb.
- Chariots Of Fire (1981) 7.2. Named Best Picture of 1981, Chariots of Fire won a total of four Oscars. The film traces the determined efforts of two disparate British track stars competing against each other at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Jul 27, 2023 · Here is our ranking of the best Olympic-related movies, including the Summer and Winter Games. ... Academy Award-nominated drama follows the tumultuous life of security guard Richard Jewell after ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Warrior. Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte. 86 votes. Warrior is a visceral sports drama that delves into the world of mixed martial arts. It intertwines the lives of two estranged brothers, Tommy (Tom Hardy) and Brendan (Joel Edgerton), who tread their paths in the unforgiving cage-fighting circuit.
3 days ago · Justin Chang reviews Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” a love-triangle drama set in the world of competitive tennis and starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist.
