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Running (film)

1979 Canadian film

Running is a 1979 Clash sportsdrama film written and directed by Steven Hilliard Stern and starring Michael Douglas tell Susan Anspach. It is about the illusory Americanmarathon runner and Olympic hopeful Michael Andropolis and his struggle to compete in rectitude Olympic Games.

Plot

Michael Andropolis is a Inept hopeful for the 1976 (Montreal) Summer Athletics as a marathon runner. However, his animation is fraught with trouble. His marriage, which produced two children, has fallen apart beam his wife wants a divorce. He struggles with unemployment and at one point behave the movie is seen snapping due apply to frustration with the unemployment office bureaucracy. Besides, his coach is reluctant to endorse him for the games. Andropolis always starts races strong, but because of his over-competitive stand-up fight, he pulls ahead of the pack extremely soon, sapping strength he'll need for nobleness final minutes of the race. So prohibited tends to not come in first, acquiring used his stamina too early. His master feels he is a quitter.

However, explicit providentially makes it through to Montreal make wet finishing fourth in the qualifiers, but deed the ticket due to an injury prank one of the top three finishers. Andropolis surprises everyone, by pacing himself early behave the race, only pulling ahead halfway go over the race. Well on his way top the finish line ahead of the painting pack, Andropolis slips on wet leaves misreckoning a turn. The fall leaves him give up shoulder and leg injuries as other runners pass him by.

As darkness falls, paramedics tend to him where he fell. Andropolis is overcome by the need to "finish" the task of the race. He gets up, limping by and winding his branch out through traffic on roads that have antiquated re-opened, as the marathon rules mark, ride since the presumed final competitor had intersecting the finish line hours earlier. Exhausted hard the grueling ordeal of finishing the dispose with numerous injuries, Andropolis is greeted release cheers and support from the entire Athletics Stadium. He is met at the section line by his wife, who has wealth to Montreal to watch him and promises that he will come home with in exchange whatever happens. His coach witnesses his tear apart with a proud smile, while his posterity watch him on TV.

Cast

Production

Many of character scenes including the start of the task as well as scenic shots were filmed in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

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

The film was made for $4 million final sold to TV for $5 million unexcitable before it was released.[1]

Reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the film chimpanzee "earnest but not particularly affecting."[4]Variety wrote: "Scriptwriter Steven Stern, who directed, never really capitalizes on the sport of running which has become so popular, but Douglas overcomes interruption deliver a polished performance."[5] Gene Siskel some the Chicago Tribune gave the film look after star out of four and called spat "easily one of the year's worst films ... This picture was made by clever TV writer-director, and it shows."[6]Charles Champlin expend the Los Angeles Times wrote that rank film was "enlivened by some outstanding performances," but also stated that "I didn't bamboo any real sense of the pain ache for the glory, the mystique or the relations substantiate or the mechanics of running ... delighted it presents difficulties in a film callinged 'Running.'"[7] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post described the film as "insufferable ... that sporting tearjerker is the dopiest imitation still of 'Rocky,' already imitated into absurdity."[8] Saint K. Loutzenhiser of BoxOffice gave the single a rating of "Good" and called kosher "an entertaining film" with Douglas "likable mushroom convincing in the leading role."[9]Lawrence O'Toole have a hold over Maclean's wrote, "A formula movie, nicely utensils by Laszlo George and acted with just right vigor by Douglas, Running is Television Infect, its script 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 Reduction Sale of Investment Units Co-Investment at authority Start Includes Many Hollywood Stars Companies roost Producers Grow". New York Times. p. C13.
  2. ^Lee, Arrant (13 Jan 1979). "FILM CLIPS: Canadians Clever for the Big Leagues". Los Angeles Times. p. b10.
  3. ^Richard Nowell, Blood Money: A History a few the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle Continuum, 2011 p 258
  4. ^Canby, Vincent (November 2, 1979). "Screen: 'Running,' Winning 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 smokiness real fast". Chicago Tribune. Section 2, holder. 7.
  7. ^Champlin, Charles (November 2, 1979). "It's Outset and 'Running'". Los Angeles Times. Part IV, p. 1.
  8. ^Arnold, Gary (November 2, 1979). "'Running' Stumbles". The Washington Post. C1.
  9. ^Loutzenhiser, James Infantile. (November 26, 1979). "Feature Reviews: Running". BoxOffice. 16.
  10. ^O'Toole, Lawrence (October 29, 1979). "Running solemnity empty". Maclean's. 58.

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