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Two men chasing dreams of glory! In this Academy Award winner for Best Picture, two very different men on the same team vie to win Olympic gold to demonstrate to the world the worth of their deeply held--and strongly opposing--convictions. Yet a friendship builds between the two in this true story that is as strong as their desire to win in Chariots of Fire. Paris Olympics, 1924. Scotsman Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson--Gandhi) competes to prove the superiority of this Christian faith, while his teammate, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross--Exorcist: The Beginning), a Jewish Englishman, is driven to win to show the world that Jews are not inferior people. But as different as they two competitors are, the bond that develops between them reveals to both how complex their true motives are... and how much they really have in common.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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84%- Reviews Counted: 57
- Fresh: 48
- Rotten: 9
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: It's an exceptional film, about some exceptional people.
Fresh: Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem to be.
Fresh: No imbalance mars the pic, whose cross-the-board achievement lifts it to an impressive level of unified accomplishment.
Rotten: The battered Britons may have some excuse for enjoying this nostalgic re-creation of empire ideology, but what's ours?
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- $14.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 1981
- © 1981 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved