One day in advance of the opening ceremonies for the 2020 (2021?) Summer Olympics, we dig into Without Limits, the long-distance running flick that almost nobody saw back in 1998.
Billy Crudup is well-cast as the often unlikable, running-obsessed Steve Prefontaine, but Robert Towne's writing & directing of the "rube" and his running buddies is not the smoothest. Pre tries to expose the corruption in amateur athletics, but then that storyline doesn't really go anywhere. Monica Potter is Pre's love interest, but she's given almost nothing to do. At least it's the sexiest movie we've had in a long time. Pre loved the ladies. He also loved (and also bristled against) his coach Bill Bowerman, who's played by Donald Sutherland in one of the best performances of his long career. So if you're not a quiet shoe designer or a front-runner going on pure guts, well, perhaps you'd enjoy hearing us talk about people who are!
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