Cool Runnings (1993)

"...very, very funny!  CBS Radio, Los Angeles
"Rocky on ice!  ABC-TV
"...surprisingly entertaining with a nice sweetness ...  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...wholesome, engaging, frequently hilarious, ultimately inspirational...  Richard Harrington, Washington Post

Editor's Note Inspired by the true story of the first Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team. The always appealing Candy is the ex-champion who takes on the four islanders who know nothing about the sport and whips them into champions.

	Leon
	Doug E. Doug
	John Candy
	Malik Yoba
	Raymond J. Barry
	Peter Outerbridge
	Jon Turteltaub - Director
	Phedon Papamichael - Director of Photography
	Nick Glennie-Smith - Musical Score
	Hans Zimmer - Musical Score
	Dawn Steel - Producer
	Lynn Siefert, et al. - Screenplay

When a fellow competitor trips Derice at an Olympic qualifying track meet, Derice fails to acquire the final points necessary to get to the summer games. To make matters worse, the local board refuses to reinstate Derice. But there's still way for him to make it to the Olympics.| After learning about a wacky American bobsledder living in Jamaica -- who had years earlier attempted to recruit Derice's father for a Jamaican bobsled team -- Derice's competitive spirit is renewed. Realizing that bobsledding may be his golden opportunity, he drafts his go-cart driving buddy Sanka, and talks Winter Olympian Irv Blitzer into coaching this offbeat team. Blitzer whips the dedicated athletes into bobsledding shape despite the total absence of snow. Together they're the weirdest outfit at Calgary -- but no one's more fun at the winter games. New York Times
"...A cute, buoyant sports fantasy, jolted along by a reggae soundtrack and playfully acted by an appealing cast..." 10/01/1993 p.C8

Sight and Sound
"...Heartwarming..." 04/01/1994 p.39-40

Variety
"...Highly entertaining....The offbeat, fact-based saga is enlivened by the perfect balance of humor, emotion and insight..." 09/20/1993