Personal Best R
Two female athletes become friends, lovers and ultimately Olympic competitors in a relationship that suggests that the "war between the sexes" is not a battle over gender.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 22, 2013
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Mariel Hemingway, Patrice Donnelly & Scott Glenn | |
| Performer: | Jim Moody | |
| Featured: | Kenny Moore | |
| Directed by | Robert Towne | |
| Screenwriting by | Robert Towne | |
| Cinematography by | Michael Chapman | |
| Produced by | Robert Towne | |
| Executive Production by | David Geffen |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Personal Best has a quality rare in movies now: ambition worn lightly. This looks like a small, simple movie, but it's hardly modest.
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The New York Review of Books
Rating: 3/5 --
The camerawork is occasionally fussy and over-reliant on sporting clichés, but this is still subtle, sensual stuff.
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Radio Times
Personal Best is a winner, thanks to its rich characterizations and the interesting behind-the-scenes look it gives us into its unique milieu.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Towne has a love of slow motion that's employed as if he's afraid you might miss one, rippling muscle. Worse than that, when people aren't exercising, they are often talking about exercising.
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Variety
The leads are convincingly athletic, the characters well drawn.
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Associated Press
Which horrible Eighties haircut to choose? Regardless, you'll be rewarded with some of the most startling and texturally stunning American cinema of that largely barren zone shortly thereafter to be known as the Reagan era. Score!
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Film Comment Magazine
But "Personal Best" only jogs along sometimes: It suffers from fleshing out.
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Washington Post
Description by OLDIES.com:
This directorial debut of Chinatown Oscar-winner Robert Towne is a bracing celebration of athletes who live the way they play: with total passion. Mariel Hemingway plays a promising hurdler who finds needed emotional and athletic seasoning with a caring mentor (Patrice Donnelly). After the two fall in love, their relationship is threatened as both vie for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 7,364
- UPC: 883316690901
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