1993 · comedy · adventure · drama
Cool Runnings
Directed by Jon Turteltaub1h 38m1993
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Our read: Cool Runnings (1993) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · adventure · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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