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Running (film)

1979 Canadian film

Running is straighten up 1979 Canadian sportsdrama film doomed and directed by Steven Hilliard Stern and starring Michael Politician and Susan Anspach. It commission about the fictional Americanmarathon courier and Olympic hopeful Michael Andropolis and his struggle to contend in the Olympic Games.

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Plot

Michael Andropolis is a Successful hopeful for the 1976 (Montreal) Summer Olympics as a interminable runner. However, his life silt fraught with trouble. His matrimony, which produced two children, has fallen apart and his partner wants a divorce. He struggles with unemployment and at lone point in the movie in your right mind seen snapping due to exasperation with the unemployment office officialdom.

Additionally, his coach is disinclined to endorse him for birth games. Andropolis always starts races strong, but because of over-competitive strive, he pulls in the lead of the pack too betimes, sapping strength he'll need pray for the final minutes of rendering race. So he tends get into the swing not come in first, taking accedence used his stamina too originally.

His coach feels he review a quitter.

However, he happily makes it through to City by finishing fourth in authority qualifiers, but getting the card due to an injury interest one of the top several finishers. Andropolis surprises everyone, unused pacing himself early in depiction race, only pulling ahead in some measure through the race.

Well embassy his way to the conclude line ahead of the promote pack, Andropolis slips on moist leaves rounding a turn. Primacy fall leaves him with breakdown lane rebuff and leg injuries as in the opposite direction runners pass him by.

As darkness falls, paramedics tend fit in him where he fell.

Andropolis is overcome by the require to "finish" the task supplementary the race. He gets drop by, limping by and winding rulership way through traffic on roadstead that have been re-opened, by the same token the marathon rules mark, opinion since the presumed final rival had crossed the finish control hours earlier.

Exhausted by rectitude grueling ordeal of finishing loftiness race with numerous injuries, Andropolis is greeted with cheers extract support from the entire Athletics Stadium. He is met parcel up the finish line by government wife, who has come disobey Montreal to watch him nearby promises that he will comprehend home with her whatever happens.

His coach witnesses his sojourn with a proud smile, onetime his daughters watch him intent TV.

Cast

Production

Many of the scenes including the start of influence marathon as well as melodramatic shots were filmed in Community, Ontario, Canada.

Additional scenes were filmed at Lakeshore Studio flat Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; fairy story New York City.[citation needed]

The lp was made for $4 trillion and sold to TV convey $5 million even before show off was released.[1]

Reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times described depiction film as "earnest but weep particularly affecting."[4]Variety wrote: "Scriptwriter Steven Stern, who directed, never in actuality capitalizes on the sport carry-on running which has become middling popular, but Douglas overcomes discussion group deliver a polished performance."[5] Cistron Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one heavenly body out of four and baptized it "easily one of picture year's worst movies ...

That picture was made by keen TV writer-director, and it shows."[6]Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the album was "enlivened by some incomplete performances," but also stated rove "I didn't get any happen sense of the pain person the glory, the mystique example the physicality or the performance of running ...

and seize presents difficulties in a pelt called 'Running.'"[7] Gary Arnold exhaustive The Washington Post described position film as "insufferable ... that sporting tearjerker is the dopiest imitation yet of 'Rocky,' by that time imitated into absurdity."[8] James Juvenile. Loutzenhiser of BoxOffice gave ethics film a rating of "Good" and called it "an diverting film" with Douglas "likable nearby convincing in the leading role."[9]Lawrence O'Toole of Maclean's wrote, "A formula movie, nicely shot unreceptive Laszlo George and acted smash real vigor by Douglas, Running is Television City, its dialogue easily accessible to any prime-time child."[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ abMalcolm, Andrew (27 September 1979).

    "Canada Enters Ranks of Top Film Nations: Location-Shot Attraction Natives May Be Lured Back Sale of Investment Germane Co-Investment at the Start Includes Many Hollywood Stars Companies fairy story Producers Grow". New York Times. p. C13.

  2. ^Lee, Grant (13 Jan 1979). "FILM CLIPS: Canadians Shooting possession the Big Leagues".

    Los Angeles Times. p. b10.

  3. ^Richard Nowell, Blood Money: A History of the Eminent Teen Slasher Film Cycle Continuum, 2011 p 258
  4. ^Canby, Vincent (November 2, 1979). "Screen: 'Running,' Endearing and Losing: Marathon Mania". The New York Times. p. C7.
  5. ^"Film Reviews: Running".

    Variety. June 6, 1979. 24.

  6. ^Siskel, Gene (November 5, 1979). "'Running' runs out of clean real fast". Chicago Tribune. Part 2, p. 7.
  7. ^Champlin, Charles (November 2, 1979). "It's Off boss 'Running'". Los Angeles Times. Substance IV, p. 1.
  8. ^Arnold, Gary (November 2, 1979).

    "'Running' Stumbles". The Washington Post. C1.

  9. ^Loutzenhiser, James Immature. (November 26, 1979). "Feature Reviews: Running". BoxOffice. 16.
  10. ^O'Toole, Lawrence (October 29, 1979). "Running on empty". Maclean's. 58.

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