Personal Best (1982)
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Critic Consensus: Mariel Hemingway has a career-making star turn in this highly physical drama about two Olympic athletes who find each other during competitive training.
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Cast
as Chris Cahill
as Terry Tingloff
as Tory Skinner
as Denny Stites
as Roscoe Travis
as Penny Brill
as Nadia `Pooch' Anderson
as Tanya
as Sheila
as Maureen
as Jan
as Trish
as Laura
as Karen
as Trish
as Yelovitch
as Zenk
as Fern Wadkins
as Charlene Benveniste
as Yelovitch
as Pam Burnside
as Debbie Floyd
as Kim Stone
as Willie Lee
as Randy Van Zile
as Rick Cahill
as Rita Cahill
as Raoul
as Colin Sales
as Nellie Bowdeen
as TV Announcer
as TV Announcer
as Duane
as Waitress
as Hostess
as Coach
as Trainer
as Waiter
as Water Polo Coach
as Water Polo Player
as PA Announcer
as Meet Manager
as Announcer
as Men's Team Member
as Men's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Women's Team Member
as Chiropractor
Critic Reviews for Personal Best
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[Robert] Towne's direction can be frustrating - at one point Donnelly and Hemingway run up a sand dune for what seems like five minutes - but the result is 50 percent more realistic than the average sports film.
But "Personal Best" only jogs along sometimes: It suffers from fleshing out.
Robert Towne's Personal Best is a flashy, hip and quite fascinating investigation into the arduous process of working out sexual identity in today's narcissistic society and culture.
Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed.
Towne has a love of slow motion that's employed as if he's afraid you might miss one, rippling muscle. Worse than that, when people aren't exercising, they are often talking about exercising.
The sort of nerve required to produce an excellent screenplay like Chinatown seems to have deserted Towne in this, his directorial debut.
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