| Product Summary | | Publisher: Warner | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00085391490524 | | Buy.com Sku: 40102824 | | Item#: VFKJYV | | Category Keywords: Theatrical Release | Rating:  |
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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, French, Subtitled, Theatrical Version, Trailers, Production Notes, Scene Access
Steve Prefontaine was a champion's champion, holder of every American distance-running record from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. Fans elevated him to rock star status. Athletes were inspired by him. Off the track, officials mired in outdated politics got the point that activist Pre was taking the sport into a new era.
The short life and fast times of the fiery Oregon distance runner form a movie that "belongs in the company of Jim Thorpe: All American and Chariots Of Fire" (Jack Mathews, Newsday). Billy Crudup, uncannily resembling the real-life Pre, and Donald Sutherland, as coach and mentor Bill Bowerman, give strong portrayals of lives aflame with conviction. Infused with track-saavy authenticity by Director Robert Towne and his co-writer Kenny Moore (Prefontaine's friend and a former world-class runner), Without Limits comes home a winnner.
Editor's Note
Robert Towne's bio-pic about the legendary long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine. The picture follows Pre's Oregon upbringing, through his days at Oregon University (where he met and worked with famed running coach Bill Bowerman), through the Munich Olympics. Sadly, his career was cut short at the age of twenty-four when he was killed in a car accident, adding to the myth of this talented, inspired athlete.
| Features | Region 1 Encoding |
| Special Features: Interactive Menus, Theatrical Trailer, Production Notes, Scene Access. |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 2/3/2004 |
| Running Time: 118 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1998 | | Catalog ID: 14905 | | UPC: 00085391490524 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Engagingly played by Billy Crudup..." 07/??/1999 p.57Rolling Stone
"...Billy Crudup is dynamite -- a magnetic star presence....It's Pre's defiant spirit that makes WITHOUT LIMIT something worth cheering..." 10/15/1998 p.134 Entertainment Weekly
"...Enthralling....Crudup gives a performance of crackling star potency....Sequences of rare physical and intellectual excitement..." -- Rating: A- 10/02/1998 p.53 New York Times
"...Mr. Towne's Prefontaine biography is the most stirring and unmistakably personal film he has directed....[He has] invested it with deep, reflective power..." 09/11/1998 p.E16 Box Office
"...WITHOUT LIMITS is a vibrant, realistic account of the life of a remarkable young man..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 04/01/1998 p.176 Premiere
"...Both actors take the baton and run with it, delivering solid, layered performances..." 05/01/1998 p.26 Los Angeles Times
"...The exciting, thoughtful and empathetic film the man deserves....Involving and unconventional..." 09/11/1998 p.C1 |
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