I wish I could write that he is "without limits" as a director, but it is Towne's flair for the obvious that prevents this picture from going that extra mile.
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Without Limits (1998)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:28
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: This drama about American track star and hero Steve Prefontaine intelligently looks at the character of this oft mythologized athlete and features a fantastic performance by Donald Sutherland as Prefontaine's trainer.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto
Director: Robert Towne
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Reviews for Without Limits
Replete with slow-motion running, sweat-dripping faces, and gut-wrentching drama, this is a must-see for any track & field fan.
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Donald Sutherland walks away with the film.
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Beautifully made and features a marvelous performance by Donald Sutherland as the track coach Bill Bowerman, but the movie is no more than moderately interesting.
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Top CriticIt's not a bad film, but Towne and his star, the charismatic Billy Crudup, never fire the imagination in the way their inspirational, respectful biopic is obviously intended to.
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Top CriticA zippy, straightforward and entirely superficial film that reduces its subject to Rocky in running shoes.
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Towne just doesn't capture his subject.
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A sturdy, hero-worshipping picture that underplays the boasting which made Pre less sympathetic in last year's version by Hollywood Pictures.
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Without Limits makes for an engrossing examination of the will to win, the importance of icons in American sports, and the interference of money in amateur athletics.
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Top CriticIts wisdom, and clearly Mr. Towne's, lies in the film's way of filtering a young man's headstrong nature through an older man's more rueful point of view.
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Where can a movie like this go except straight into a brick wall?
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Top CriticDefinitely has its problems, but it's still one of the best sports movies I've ever seen.
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Sutherland's performance is the film's treasure.
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Top CriticIt's a good, solid little film about a man whose story deserves better.
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Even at almost a full two hours in length, the movie feels as trim as its star.
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It's a great American story.
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If you are, like me, a reluctant consumer of sporting films, you are in a for a terrific surprise.
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