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Cool Runnings
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Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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Directed By: Jon Turteltaub
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Picture Format: Letterbox
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Theatrical Release: October 1, 1993
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Features:- Classic DVD
- Exclusive interviews, highlights, and behind the scenes coverage
- DVD's main menu allow you to jump directly to the action
- Presented in full-screen digital video
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Starring: John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba
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.
User Submitted Cool Runnings Reviews
September 28, 2008
amazing
I was so excited to find this movie on DVD. It was one of my favorites as a kid! came rather timely although dvd case came a little crunched which i attribute to the mail. other than that everything was fine! the dvd works great.
thanks!
September 15, 2008
Cool Runnings
I have been hearing about this movie for a very long time and never got the chance to see it. It was hilarious. I love it. Typical Jamaicans anything considered a challenge is worth trying (at least once). The sky is the limit. Sanka never experience cold weather before except when he was put in the Ice cream truck had to put all the clothes he took with him to ward off the cold. I almost die laughing. Great Movie and no profanity
August 18, 2008
Seeking Gold Medals in the Game of Life
Loosely based on the long-shot Jamaican Bobsled Team that debuted in the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, this comedy delivers a storm of laughs, but also has an inspirational message.
John Candy portrays a disgraced former bobsled competitor who finds redemption as the initially reluctant coach of the four-member squad. From team members who suffered great disappointment in other athletic endeavors to the doors nearly shut in their faces due to being outsiders in the world-class chess match of sports politics, this is a feel-good story on reaching for dreams and achieving victory in ways that cannot be measured simply by a stop watch.
The message is universal and one that should be revisited by young people and adults on what gold medal performances actually mean in the game of life.
July 9, 2008
COOLING RUNNING
JMJ JULY09,2008
COOL RUNNING IS A VERY GOOD MOVIE, IT HAVE ACTION,COMMITMENT,PERSISTENT
COURAGE AND MOST OF ALL NEVER NEVER SAY I CAN'T DO IT. I RECOMMEND THIS
FLIM FOR A FAMILY TO SEE WITH THEIR CHILDERN AND AFTER HAVE THE PARENTS
TO ASK THEIR CHILDERN WHAT DID THEY LEARN FROM THIS FLIM.
THANK,YOU
GOD BLESS
MARIE L. BILLS
April 21, 2008
Cool Runnings
This is such a great movie - I loved it in the theater and now my kids love it!
March 17, 2008
Fun Caribbean type movie
A Jamaican man has the dream to make it to the Olympics, and while he is the fastest runner in the Island nation, he is tripped and unable to win.
He finds out that there is another opportunity, and that is for a bobsled team, something Jamaica has never attempted because... who would ever dream of a team from a Caribbean Island that competes against the best of the best... they don't even know about snow!!!
John Candy is a retired Olympic gold medal winner and he lives in Kingston. The team enlists his services and soon we find ourselves witnessing a rather funny story of a group of athletes going to compete in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where cold is something beyond every conceivable idea of this group of four great athletes.
Simply, don't' miss this fun Caribbean story of the struggle to achieve greatness.
January 21, 2008
no issues with purchase or shipment
no issues with this purchase. Got a little nervous because it didn't arrive until the day before Xmas, but otherwise fine.
January 19, 2008
A Crunchy Parental Review of
This is the story of the Jamaican bobsled team that made it to the Olympics. It is based on a true story.
Unfortunately, true or not, there are scenes you just don't want children to see, and we were prettty shocked that it was rated only PG.
We could maybe have lived with one character calling another "*ssh*le", but there is an extended scene in a bar, involving a bar fight, during which the drinking, name-calling and fighting in that scene bracket another scene in the mens room of the bar, where one of the characters looks into a mirror and says, over and over, " I'm a bad-*ss mother who don't take no cr*p off of nobody!"
If these don't bother you - or if your child is of an age where you feel it's ok for them to see these scenes - then "Cool Runnings" is an otherwise ok movie. But these scenes were of a magnitude that for us this movie was definitely not ok.
Anne
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August 28, 2007
Cool Running
Very satisfied with the promptness of ordering through Amazon; the product was in perfect condition
August 4, 2007
Cool Runnings
Love this movie. Very happy with this DVD. I had the same movie before but for some reason it would not play any more. Never had that happen with any other DVD I own.
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