Without Limits

SUMMARY: A very inspiring movie about runner Steve Prefontaine. I highly recommend it!

Though this movie came out in 1998, I hadn’t seen it until a couple months ago. I was down in Gatlinburg, TN to compete in a karate tournament, and they played the movie on HBO. I sat in my hotel room, and managed to see most of the movie. Before seeing this movie, I didn’t even know who Steve Prefontaine was. It immediately went on my list movies that I had to see. So when I got home, I found that the library had the DVD, and I put it on hold. I finally got it the other day. I watched it today while I was on the treadmill running my scheduled 8 miles. The timing was perfect as the length of the movie was almost exactly the length of my 8 mile run, and my cool down. Nice! Donald Sutherland does a great job playing Prefontaine’s coach Bill Bowerman. I grew up in Seattle, (a few hours from where Nike shoes came from) and have been wearing Nike shoes since the Nike Cortez’s originally came out. It was fascinating to learn how the company got it’s start. You gotta see this movie!
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Posted by Rob in Reviews on October 14th, 2006 |