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Here's the triumphant, true-life story of an Olympic hero...and just how far he came in order to become the fastest Olympic long distance runner the world has ever seen! Raised under oppressive conditions in one of the world's poorest countries, the Ethiopian boy named Haile Gebrselassie was born to run! When he wasn't laboring in his father's fields, young Haile would be running: the six miles to school and back, while doing chores or simply for pleasure at the end of a long, hard day! In an inspirational and artfully crafted motion picture, the climactic moment comes as the unstoppable Haile chases down his lifelong dream in a stirring Gold Medal performance at the Atlanta Olympic Games.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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50%- Reviews Counted: 26
- Fresh: 13
- Rotten: 13
- Average Rating: 5.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Its mixture of biographical hype and social studies quickly curdles.
Rotten: More analytically inclined will be suspicious of the degree of contrivance involved and the stylistic idealization of Third World poverty.
Fresh: A solid dramatized biography of Gebrselassie, and much of it features the somewhat introspective runner with a sunny smile.
Fresh: He didn't come from a background of training, coaching and determination, but from the rural hills, where we see him running to school, running to the water well, running to the fields, always with that stoic thrumming of his breath.
Customer Reviews
Endurance
Incredibly inspiring !!!! A must see... What a great story, I'm so proud!!
Inspirational
Don't expect much to be said but the inspiration that can come from this film speaks volumes.
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- Genre: Documentary
- Released: 1999
- © 1999 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.