Chris Cahill
Search results
- The film received positive reviews after its release. Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert placed Personal Best on their lists of the ten best films of 1982. It garnered a 74% approval rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Despite its popularity with film critics, the film did not succeed at the box office.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Best_(film)
People also ask
Is personal best a good movie?
Who are the actors in personal best?
Is personal best a small movie?
What is personal best about?
Robert Towne's “Personal Best” tells the story of two women who are competitors for pentathlete berths on the 1980 U.S. Olympics team--the team that did not.
- Kenny Moore
Kenny Moore movie reviews & film summaries | Roger Ebert....
- Kenny Moore
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 a 1982 American drama film written, produced and directed by Robert Towne. It stars Mariel Hemingway and real-life track star Patrice Donnelly, along with Scott Glenn as the coach. The film is about the lesbian relationship between two track-and-field teammates whose relationship might interfere with their performance.
With Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore. The intertwined lives and loves of three highly ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.
- (3.3K)
- Drama, Sport
- Robert Towne
- 1982-06-26
Young sprinter Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly).
- (34)
- Robert Towne
- R
- Mariel Hemingway
Nov 4, 2019 · A bisexual athlete trains for the Olympics and falls in love. Personal Best treats romance honestly but focuses on the mundane realities of professional sports. Negative reviews call the constant training boring and the locker room nudity exploitative.
What advance publicity has been powerless to suggest is that Personal Best is an exceptionally well-crafted, thoroughly accurate, emotionally galvanizing piece of filmmaking, easily one of the most intelligent explorations of competition on cinematic record.
