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Release Date:
1 October 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
One Dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty Below Zero.
Plot:
Based on the true story of the First Jamacian bobsled team trying to make it to the winter olympics. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins
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2 nominations
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(6 articles)
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Walmart, Target and Amazon are Selling New DVDs for $10
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Sweet, disarming film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Leon | ... | Derice Bannock (as Leon Robinson) |
 | Doug E. Doug | ... | Sanka Coffie |
| Rawle D. Lewis | ... | Junior Bevil |
 | Malik Yoba | ... | Yul Brenner |
 | John Candy | ... | Irving 'Irv' Blitzer |
 | Raymond J. Barry | ... | Kurt Hemphill |
| Peter Outerbridge | ... | Josef Grool |
| Paul Coeur | ... | Roger |
| Larry Gilman | ... | Larry |
| Charles Hyatt | ... | Whitby Bevil Sr. |
| Winston Stona | ... | Coolidge |
| Bertina Macauley | ... | Joy Bannock |
| Pauline Stone Myrie | ... | Momma Coffie |
| Kristoffer Cooper | ... | Winston |
| Bill Dow | ... | Registration Official |
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Rated PG for mild language and brief violence.
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98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Peru:PT |
South Korea:All |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
Germany:o.Al. |
Netherlands:AL |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
Singapore:PG
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Based on a true story.
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Revealing mistakes: After the final run, Derice is stepping down from the run and shakes hands and speaks with the Swiss driver, it is clear the man behind them, center screen, is actually fake clapping.
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Quotes:
Sanka Coffie:
All I'm saying, mon, is if we walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican, and *is* Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.
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Referenced in "Family Guy: Peter's Progress (#7.16)" (2009)
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Soundtrack:
Jamaican Bobsledding Chant
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Hands up all Jamaicans. (There are only 2.6 million people in Jamaica - so I know you don't account for a large percentage of the English-speaking world.) Hands up all those people with any interest at all in bobsledding. Hah! I knew it! No-one.
That's why `Cool Runnings' succeeds. It depends not at all on aggressive nationalism (it couldn't afford to, with a constituency of 2.6 million), and people of all countries are free to participate in the Jamaicans' perfectly reasonable patriotism. (Probably even the Swiss, whose bobsled team comes across as more than a trifle arrogant.) Nor is there any of that worship of a particular sport that makes baseball movies so unendurable for people outside of North America, Cuba and Japan. (Not that I have any evidence that baseball movies are popular in Cuba or Japan.)
There isn't any power-of-positive-thinking psychobabble, either - at least, it doesn't dominate. The four Jamaican bobsledders are separate people with different goals and ways of thinking. The coach (played beautifully by John Candy, who proves that he can act without playing the clown) doesn't ram a particular ideology down his players' throats. I doubt that any sports film has a more civilised and reasonable coach.
It comes down to this: we are given a reason to care about the characters, unrelated to nationality; and we are given a story that's worth following, even if we would never follow the sport itself. The clichés are fewer than usual and never offensive. It's a sweet film, and I doubt there's more than a handfull of people who could resist its charm.