Personal Best (1982)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 14 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Synopsis:
Two highly competitive female athletes discover erotic feelings for each other as they train for the Olympics. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore
Director: Robert Towne
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There's no questioning its authenticity.... However, the movie tends to make its points early and then repeat itself unnecessarily.
01/20/08 11:03 PM
The sort of nerve required to produce an excellent screenplay like Chinatown seems to have deserted Towne in this, his directorial debut.
02/09/06 03:17 AM
Top CriticUnless you're fascinated by all of the prettified slow-motion footage of Chris, Tory and the other women athletes, your eye is likely to wander to your watch long before the end.
08/30/04 10:17 PM
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An unusual subject to get the Hollywood treatment though, and as such it should be commended, while Hemmingway is always worth catching.
05/24/03 08:14 AM
One of the best movies ever about competition, with wonderfully natural performances.
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04/04/03 05:08 AM
A frank, honest portrayal of the sacrifices of Olympic-caliber athletes. it is tough and uncompromising.
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10/11/02 11:54 AM
A robust and adventuresome film that is both tough and sentimental in its portrait of Olympic grade women athletes.
01/24/02 01:18 PM
It's a quintessential girl's coming-of-age story, and writer/director Robert Towne saw that Hemingway's uncanny ability to play both impressionable and stubborn, ingenuous and ambitious, naive and wise, was perfectly suited to this drama.
11/06/01 08:15 AM
The characters have a fullness and vitality rare in American films of that period, but Towne has so much trouble establishing information visually that the film emerges as choppy, confused, ill-proportioned.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
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