Revealing mistake: The actors all have the speed, form, and physique of high school athletes- not people headed to the Olympics.
Personal Best (1982)
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Directed by: Robert Towne
Starring: Scott Glenn, Mariel Hemingway, Kenny Moore, Patrice Donnelly
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9.5/10. A darn good movie that took the backdrop of the USA's boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics and made a pretty good story out of it. Mariel Hemingway shows she can act and has great potential as her character of Chris Cahill who's also undergoing a lot to make it on the team. I enjoyed the good chemistry she had with Patrice Donnelly, an actual track star, who plays her team mate and brief girlfriend Tory Skinner. I disagreed with them being broken up but Desert Hearts would be the movie that showed two people of the same gender can be in love and that it's not a phase. Personally I would've given Mariel Hemingway almost any acting award as she earned it and all the praise she got for this movie.
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Terry Tingloff: The high jump is a masochists event-it always ends on failure.