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Cool Runnings
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
1993 · Directed by Jon Turteltaub · 98 min · Comedy · Adventure · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero.
Crew
- Screenplay: Tommy Swerdlow, Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg
- Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael
- Edited by: Bruce Green
- Music: Hans Zimmer
- Production design: Stephen Marsh
- Produced by: Dawn Steel
Cast
- Leon as Derice Bannock
- Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie
- Rawle D. Lewis as Junior Bevil
- Malik Yoba as Yul Brenner
- John Candy as Irv
- Raymond J. Barry as Kurt Hemphill
- Peter Outerbridge as Josef Grool
- Paul Cœur as Roger
- Larry Gilman as Larry
- Charles Hyatt as Whitby Bevil, Sr.
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, German, Russian, French
- Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Dawn Steel Productions
- Budget: $14,000,000
- Box office: $154,856,263
- Themes: underdog, sports, winter, olympic games, jamaica, trainer, training camp, reggae, bobsleighing, based on true story
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