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Regular
Price $14.99
Starring:
Leon,
Doug E. Doug,
Rawle D. Lewis,
Malik Yoba,
John Candy,
Directed By:
Jon Turteltaub,
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 1993-10-01
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Format:
Closed-captioned,
Color,
DVD-Video,
Letterboxed,
Widescreen,
NTSC,
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Editorial Reviews and
DVD Information about
Cool Runnings
Product Description
Based on a true story, this is the comedic saga of four Jamaican athletes going to extremes to compete as bobsled racers at the Winter Olympics. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, it's an uphill course for this troupe from the tropics who are sliding on thin ice as they go for the gold in Calgary, Canada. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, these four Jamaicans enlist the help of a down-and-out ex-champion American slider named Irv. Unavoidably drawn back to a sport he had come to loathe, Irv is faced with coaching a team of complete novices. But once committed, he is determined to turn them around and to somehow right the wrongs of his own failed career. It's a bumpy ride but with pride, determination, and dignity, the bobsledders make their impossible dreams come true.
Amazon.com
Based on an improbable but true story, Cool Runnings concerns the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenon) does a fine job with both the absurdity of the situation (the athletes had never even seen snow) and the passion behind it (their desire to compete and win). John Candy, in one of his last roles, is touching as a disgraced coach who seizes the opportunity to work with the Jamaicans as a chance for redemption. The bobsled scenes look good, and the races are exciting. The climax, which is entirely unexpected, takes the film to a wholly different level, even if events in the story don't quite match the facts. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews for
Cool Runnings
Seeking Gold Medals in the Game of Life
Loosely based on the long-shot Jamaican Bobsled Team that debuted in the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, this comedy delivers a storm of laughs, but also has an inspirational message.
John Candy portrays a disgraced former bobsled competitor who finds redemption as the initially reluctant coach of the four-member squad. From team members who suffered great disappointment in other athletic endeavors to the doors nearly shut in their faces due to being outsiders in the world-class chess match of sports politics, this is a feel-good story on reaching for dreams and achieving victory in ways that cannot be measured simply by a stop watch.
The message is universal and one that should be revisited by young people and adults on what gold medal performances actually mean in the game of life.
Cool Runnings
COOLING RUNNING
JMJ JULY09,2008
COOL RUNNING IS A VERY GOOD MOVIE, IT HAVE ACTION,COMMITMENT,PERSISTENT
COURAGE AND MOST OF ALL NEVER NEVER SAY I CAN'T DO IT. I RECOMMEND THIS
FLIM FOR A FAMILY TO SEE WITH THEIR CHILDERN AND AFTER HAVE THE PARENTS
TO ASK THEIR CHILDERN WHAT DID THEY LEARN FROM THIS FLIM.
THANK,YOU
GOD BLESS
MARIE L. BILLSCool Runnings
Cool Runnings
This is such a great movie - I loved it in the theater and now my kids love it!Cool Runnings
Fun Caribbean type movie
A Jamaican man has the dream to make it to the Olympics, and while he is the fastest runner in the Island nation, he is tripped and unable to win.
He finds out that there is another opportunity, and that is for a bobsled team, something Jamaica has never attempted because... who would ever dream of a team from a Caribbean Island that competes against the best of the best... they don't even know about snow!!!
John Candy is a retired Olympic gold medal winner and he lives in Kingston. The team enlists his services and soon we find ourselves witnessing a rather funny story of a group of athletes going to compete in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where cold is something beyond every conceivable idea of this group of four great athletes.
Simply, don't' miss this fun Caribbean story of the struggle to achieve greatness.
Cool Runnings
no issues with purchase or shipment
no issues with this purchase. Got a little nervous because it didn't arrive until the day before Xmas, but otherwise fine.Cool Runnings
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