| | | A team is not a team if you don't give a damn about each other.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Surround Sound
Eric Roberts (Academy Award Nominee Best Actor in a supporting Role Runaway Train 1985, National Security, TV's "Less Than Perfect"), Philip Rhee, Christopher Penn (Starsky and Hutch, Reservoir Dogs), John Dye and David Agresta play five young men who are selected as members of the U.S. National Karate Team. Each teammate has his own reason for competing. However, they soon discover that in order to function as a team, they must put aside their differences and learn to depend upon each other. James Earl Jones (Academy Award Nominee Best Actor The Great White Hope 1970, Field of Dreams, Hunt for Red October), is their unorthodox coach, and Sally Kirkland (Anna, The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born), their trainer, teach them that winning is not a sometime thing--it's an all-time thing. Together they enter an exhausting training period that puts their mental and physical skills to the ultimate endurance test. After three months of grueling workouts and personal conflicts they are ready to face the highly skilled Korean team and become true champions. In an unexpected and climactic ending, these men come to understand what it takes to be the Best of the Best.
Editor's Note
An unorthodox coach and a trainer work together to teach a competition team of kickboxers that winning is not just a sometime thing and that a team is not a team if you don't care about one another.
Plot Summary
The US national team travels to South Korea to compete in an international martial arts competition. Once there, a brash young member of the American squad goes out seeking revenge against the Korean champ who killed his brother in a previous match. Another member of the American team has entered the competition while still recovering from a shoulder injury, and he becomes dangerously distracted when his five-year-old son falls seriously ill.| With this splintering of the squad's effort, a US win is in serious doubt. Will they recover in time to taste victory?
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 5/23/2006 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1989 | | Catalog ID: 06475 | | UPC: 00043396064751 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times 5 of 10
My personal glossary of movie terms includes a definition for the CLIDVIC film: The acronym stands - Roger Ebert
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