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Rush

  • 20132013
  • RR
  • 2h 3m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
487K
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Daniel Brühl and Chris Hemsworth in Rush (2013)
From Ron Howard comes an exhilarating true story of two legendary rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda, starring Chris Hemsworth.
Play trailer2:34
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The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
487K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,068
231
  • Director
    • Ron Howard
  • Writer
    • Peter Morgan
  • Stars
    • Daniel Brühl
    • Chris Hemsworth
    • Olivia Wilde
  • Director
    • Ron Howard
  • Writer
    • Peter Morgan
  • Stars
    • Daniel Brühl
    • Chris Hemsworth
    • Olivia Wilde
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 653User reviews
    • 424Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #218
    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 6 wins & 65 nominations total

    Videos47

    UK Trailer
    Trailer 2:34
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    Trailer #2
    Trailer 2:35
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    Version 1
    Trailer 2:31
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    International Teaser
    Trailer 1:53
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    How the Best Racing Films Raise the Stakes
    Clip 4:37
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    Ron Howard - The Power of True Stories
    Clip 2:45
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    Rush: Marlene Asks Lauda To Drive Fast
    Clip 0:41
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    Rush: Hunt And Lauda Answer Press Questions
    Clip 0:51
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    Rush: Lauda Confronts Hunt After A Race
    Clip 0:30
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    Rush (French Teaser subtitled)
    Clip 1:49
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    Rush: Suzy Tells Hunt She Is Supposed To Avoid Him
    Clip 0:56
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    Rush: Hunt And Lauda Talk Before The Brazilian Grand Prix
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    Photos263

    Daniel Brühl in Rush (2013)
    Daniel Brühl and Alexandra Maria Lara in Rush (2013)
    Daniel Brühl in Rush (2013)
    Daniel Brühl in Rush (2013)
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    Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Dormer in Rush (2013)
    Chris Hemsworth in Rush (2013)
    Daniel Brühl and Chris Hemsworth in Rush (2013)
    Daniel Brühl and Chris Hemsworth in Rush (2013)
    Rush (2013)
    Daniel Brühl and Chris Hemsworth in Rush (2013)

    Top cast

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    Daniel Brühl
    Daniel Brühl
    • Niki Lauda
    Chris Hemsworth
    Chris Hemsworth
    • James Hunt
    Olivia Wilde
    Olivia Wilde
    • Suzy Miller
    Alexandra Maria Lara
    Alexandra Maria Lara
    • Marlene Lauda
    Pierfrancesco Favino
    Pierfrancesco Favino
    • Clay Regazzoni
    David Calder
    David Calder
    • Louis Stanley
    Natalie Dormer
    Natalie Dormer
    • Nurse Gemma
    Stephen Mangan
    Stephen Mangan
    • Alastair Caldwell
    Christian McKay
    Christian McKay
    • Lord Hesketh
    Alistair Petrie
    Alistair Petrie
    • Stirling Moss
    Julian Rhind-Tutt
    Julian Rhind-Tutt
    • Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
    Colin Stinton
    Colin Stinton
    • Teddy Mayer
    Jamie de Courcey
    Jamie de Courcey
    • Harvey 'Doc' Postlethwaite
    Augusto Dallara
    • Enzo Ferrari
    • (as Augusto Dall'ara)
    Ilario Calvo
    • Luca Di Montezemolo
    Patrick Baladi
    Patrick Baladi
    • John Hogan
    Vincent Riotta
    Vincent Riotta
    • Lauda's Mechanic
    Martin Savage
    Martin Savage
    • McLaren Mechanic
    • Director
      • Ron Howard
    • Writer
      • Peter Morgan
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      In an interview with Austrian Times on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Niki Lauda stated that a journalist asking him how his injured face affected his marriage was the biggest insult he had to suffer in his life.
    • Goofs
      Throughout the film Niki Lauda's nationality is shown in the stats abbreviated as AUS - this would be the international code for Australia. Austria's code is AUT.
    • Quotes

      Niki Lauda: A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

    • Connections
      Featured in Top Gear: Search For The World's Best Taxi - Tribute To BBC Television Centre (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      I Hear You Knocking
      Performed by Dave Edmunds

      Written by David Bartholomew (as Dave Bartholomew) and Earl King

      Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd. and Dave Edmunds

    User reviews653

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    8/10
    Thrilling character study
    As Asif Kapadia's gripping and extremely moving 2010 documentary Senna proved, cinema audiences have a thirst for the larger-than-life characters that inhabit the Formula One track. The sport itself is frightfully dull (although I'm sure plenty will disagree with that), but the sportsmen willing to lay down their life for a kick and a trophy are infinitely more fascinating, especially in the days of lax safety rules. The sport nowadays is little more than advertising on wheels, but when the likes of James Hunt and Niki Lauda battled it out on the track, epic rivalries were created, and no matter how talented these men were at driving these "coffins on wheels", every race could spell out death. Rush portrays the clash of two opposing personalities. The long-haired, dashing Englishman James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) was all about the adrenaline, embracing the post-race parties and lying with the many women that would throw themselves at him. He was reckless, willing to risk his life and others in order to win, but, as described in the film, there was no better driver in the world in terms of raw talent. His rival, Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl), was focused, clinical, and even helped design the cars he would drive. He was the early-night type, 'rat-faced' and cold. In every sense, he's the perfect villain. But where Rush succeeds the most is challenging our early conceptions of these two characters. There's little fun to be had with Lauda, but played by Bruhl, he evolves into the underdog of the movie, perhaps the only one that actually gives a damn about his own life and the life of his opponents. This, naturally, leads to tragedy and a particularly wince-inducing scene in which Lauda requires having his lungs vacuumed, but it's at this point that we realise just what these two drivers mean to each other. As Lauda watches Hunt claw back some points in the 1976 Formula One season, it becomes clear that these two need each other to survive. Their hatred of one another only serves to fuel the flames, and leads to Lauda's defiant early return to the driver's seat, scarred and bandaged. Fast cars, beautiful women and exotic locations hardly sounds like a recognisable workload for Ron Howard, one of the most play-it-easy directors out there. His past films have been unjustifiably successful, critically and commercially, never stamping a recognisable directorial trait onto his work. Yet here, although the bright sheen of the 70's initially takes some getting used to, he has managed to create a world that is very much alive, using snappy editing, a pumping soundtrack and some growing sound design to re-create this world for petrol-heads. But he doesn't neglect his characters, and evokes the great work done on Frost/Nixon (2008), which was also a study of two giant, clashing personalities coming together on the world stage. Rush is an exhilarating experience, able to distinguish each race from the next and literally putting us in the driver's seat with the use of digital cameras. Although it occasionally drifts into formulaic territory with the introduction of the 'wives' (played by Oivia Wilde and Alexandra Maria Lara, respectively), Howard cleverly uses this as an insight into Hunt and Lauda's personalities. Hemsworth is very good in his first 'proper' post-Thor role, but it is Bruhl that you take away from the film. How he gets you to initially loath him, only to be cheering him on at the climax is the work of a great actor, and it's a crime that he has been snubbed by the Academy this year. Hopefully this will inspire a host of decent sports movies, as Rush proves that you can mix character study and even existential musings with the thrill of sport.
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    • tomgillespie2002
    • Jan 19, 2014

    FAQ2

    • What filming techniques were used to capture the 'Rush' of driving a Formula 1 Racing Car?
    • Did James Hunt really punch a journalist for insulting Niki Lauda?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 27, 2013 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Italian
      • French
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Đường Đua Nghẹt Thở
    • Filming locations
      • Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Exclusive Media Group
      • Cross Creek Pictures
      • Imagine Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $38,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $26,947,624
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $187,289
      • Sep 22, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $96,983,009
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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