Cool runnings
(Movies)

Originally released as motion picture in 1993.

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Dolby digital.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Rated PG.

Score, Hans Zimmer ; production designer, Stephen Marsh ; executive producers, Christopher Meledandri, Susan B. Landau ; story, Lynn Siefert, Michael Ritchie ; screenplay, Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, Michael Goldberg ; producer, Dawn Steel ; director, Jon Turteltaub.

Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yorba, John Candy.

The comedy hit inspired by the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team.

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.|The filmmakers traveled to Jamaica for the primary filming and shot the Winter Olympics scenes in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.|The movie is based on a true story about the unlikely formation of a Jamaican bobsled team to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics. The participants have never even seen snow, let alone a bobsled.

DVD.