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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 24, 1999
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Candy | |
Performer: | Doug E. Doug, Leon, Malik Yoba & Rawle Lewis | |
Directed by | Jon Turteltaub | |
Screenwriting by | Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow & Michael Goldberg | |
Produced by | Dawn Steel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Cool Runnings doesn't even rate a bronze medal as either sports film or comedy.
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TV Guide
Rating: 2/4 --
Entirely mediocre and forgettable
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ReelViews
Cool Runnings is able to defy everything formulaic about sports movies and manages to rise up as a crowd-pleasing comedy.
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Solzy at the Movies
...Highly entertaining....The offbeat, fact-based saga is enlivened by the perfect balance of humor, emotion and insight...
Variety
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If you like underdog movies, you might like this one. Especially if you haven't seen very many.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Travelogue shots of happy Jamaicans dancing in the sun give way to patronising comedy.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Cool Runnings is a charming tale of determined underdogs, with plenty of laughs, moments of real tension, and five engaging performances.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
Inspired by the true story of the first Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team. The always appealing Candy is the ex-champion who takes on the four islanders who know nothing about the sport and whips them into champions.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment:
Cool Runnings
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.
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Movie Lover: Dwight Logan from
GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB CA -- August, 28, 2011
Cute movie with a tie-in to the Calgary Olympics, and based on a real event. Humerous and entertaining.
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- Sales Rank: 6,427
- UPC: 717951002754
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