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Cool Runnings is a 1993 American sports comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, and Michael Goldberg, and a story by Siefert and Michael Ritchie. It is loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics , and stars Leon , Doug E. Doug , Rawle D. Lewis ...
The story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics was turned into the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. [7] However, the film was only loosely based on actual events, with real-life coach Pat Brown later saying that the team had never experienced any of the animosity from the other teams as depicted in the movie. [8]
In 1993, Disney released Cool Runnings, a film loosely based on and inspired by the team's experience in the four-man Bobsleigh at the 1988 Winter Olympics event. The 1988 four-man team were referenced in the 1999 Futurama episode "Xmas Story."
When Cool Runnings was a darker movie, Coach Blitzer was conceived as a grizzled character role, with Kurt Russell among the names considered. Once Disney reimagined the film as a whole, though ...
With Disney’s beloved sports comedy “Cool Runnings” celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, director Jon Turteltaub and the cast reunited for an interview with The Independent and ...
Candy starred in his first comedic hit in a number of years with Cool Runnings (1993), a story of the first Jamaican national bobsleigh team attempting to make it to the 1988 Winter Olympics. He also had a cameo in the successful Rookie of the Year (1993). He made his directorial debut in the 1994 comedy television film Hostage for a Day.
Mica Moore is relishing her future in the Jamaica bobsleigh after switching from Great Britain.
Dudley Clifford "Tal" Stokes [1] (born 22 June 1962) is a Jamaican bobsledder [2] and bobsled coach. [3] He competed at the 1988, 1992, 1994 and the 1998 Winter Olympics. [4]In 1993, Disney produced a successful feature film called Cool Runnings about the 1988 Olympics, a fictional story about the first time a Jamaican bobsleigh team competed in the Olympics.