IMDb >
Cool Runnings (1993)
Watch It
Buy it at Amazon
Rent it at blockbuster.com
Discuss in Boards More at IMDb Pro Add to My Movies Update Data
BETA
Discuss in Boards More at IMDb Pro Add to My Movies Update Data
Quicklinks
Top Links
trailers and videosfull cast and crewtriviaofficial sitesmemorable quotesOverview
main detailscombined detailsfull cast and crewcompany creditstv scheduleAwards & Reviews
user commentsexternal reviewsnewsgroup reviewsawardsuser ratingsparents guiderecommendationsmessage boardPlot & Quotes
plot summaryplot synopsisplot keywordsAmazon.com summarymemorable quotesFun Stuff
triviagoofssoundtrack listingcrazy creditsalternate versionsmovie connectionsFAQOther Info
merchandising linksbox office/businessrelease datesfilming locationstechnical specslaserdisc detailsDVD detailsliterature listingsNewsDeskPromotional
taglines trailers and videos posters photo galleryExternal Links
showtimesofficial sitesmiscellaneousphotographssound clipsvideo clipsCool Runnings (1993) More at IMDbPro »
| Photos (see all 27 | slideshow) |
Overview
User Rating:
Release Date:
1 October 1993 (USA) moreTagline:
One Dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty Below Zero.Plot:
Based on the true story of the First Jamacian bobsled team trying to make it to the winter olympics. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Sorcerer’s Apprentice Still Adding Cast Members (From Screen Rant. 18 May 2009, 9:34 PM, PDT)
Chariots Of Fire Is Top Olympics Movie
(From WENN. 17 August 2008, 6:25 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
Sweet, disarming film moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Leon | ... | Derice Bannock (as Leon Robinson) | |
| Doug E. Doug | ... | Sanka Coffie | |
| Rawle D. Lewis | ... | Junior Bevil | |
| Malik Yoba | ... | Yul Brenner | |
| John Candy | ... | Irving 'Irv' Blitzer | |
| Raymond J. Barry | ... | Kurt Hemphill | |
| Peter Outerbridge | ... | Josef Grool | |
| Paul Coeur | ... | Roger | |
| Larry Gilman | ... | Larry | |
| Charles Hyatt | ... | Whitby Bevil Sr. | |
| Winston Stona | ... | Coolidge | |
| Bertina Macauley | ... | Joy Bannock | |
| Pauline Stone Myrie | ... | Momma Coffie | |
| Kristoffer Cooper | ... | Winston | |
| Bill Dow | ... | Registration Official |
Additional Details
MPAA:
Rated PG for mild language and brief violence.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
98 minCountry:
USAColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
DolbyCertification:
Iceland:L | Peru:PT | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. | Netherlands:AL | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PGFun Stuff
Trivia:
Contrary to the story in movie, the Jamaican team was met with open arms by the international Bobsledding teams. One of the other teams even when so far as to lend the Jamaican team their back-up sled so they could qualify. moreGoofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Junior is looking in the mirror at the bar, his words don't match with lips. moreQuotes:
Irv: All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do it, I don't want to coach it, and most of all, and I mean most of all, I don't want to be within two thousand miles of anybody who does. Now did you follow all that? moreSoundtrack:
Wild Wild Life moreFAQ
This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.more
Message Boards
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Cool Runnings (1993) moreRecommendations
If you enjoyed this title, our database also recommends:
Show more recommendations
|
|
|
|
|
| Little Giants | The Perfect Game | Miracle | Eight Below | Fly Away Home |
|
IMDb User Rating:
|
IMDb User Rating:
|
IMDb User Rating:
|
IMDb User Rating:
|
IMDb User Rating:
|
Related Links
| Full cast and crew | Company credits | External reviews |
| News articles | IMDb Adventure section | IMDb USA section |
| Add this title to MyMovies |












Hands up all Jamaicans. (There are only 2.6 million people in Jamaica - so I know you don't account for a large percentage of the English-speaking world.) Hands up all those people with any interest at all in bobsledding. Hah! I knew it! No-one.
That's why `Cool Runnings' succeeds. It depends not at all on aggressive nationalism (it couldn't afford to, with a constituency of 2.6 million), and people of all countries are free to participate in the Jamaicans' perfectly reasonable patriotism. (Probably even the Swiss, whose bobsled team comes across as more than a trifle arrogant.) Nor is there any of that worship of a particular sport that makes baseball movies so unendurable for people outside of North America, Cuba and Japan. (Not that I have any evidence that baseball movies are popular in Cuba or Japan.)
There isn't any power-of-positive-thinking psychobabble, either - at least, it doesn't dominate. The four Jamaican bobsledders are separate people with different goals and ways of thinking. The coach (played beautifully by John Candy, who proves that he can act without playing the clown) doesn't ram a particular ideology down his players' throats. I doubt that any sports film has a more civilised and reasonable coach.
It comes down to this: we are given a reason to care about the characters, unrelated to nationality; and we are given a story that's worth following, even if we would never follow the sport itself. The clichés are fewer than usual and never offensive. It's a sweet film, and I doubt there's more than a handfull of people who could resist its charm.