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Tracktown (2016)
Unsalvageable
This is terrible. Just terrible. As a competitive endurance runner, I thought this would be a fun movie I could relate to. Nope. Even the running life portions are not even slightly accurate. (Will spare you the diatribe on realistic portrayals of the running world - but just to be clear, no coach in the world would ever push back on a sports physician recommending rest to an athlete. If your coach does, fire that person.) But more to the point, the acting is some of the worst I've ever seen (only Plum's parents are well acted characters - even then, props to Rachel Dratch for trying to overcome the hollowness of the writing and development of her character as much as she could) and the writing is juvenile and listless. You can't just add some mood lighting and whispy indie music to every scene to make up for its emptiness. The thing that concerned me the most, however, was the rapey boyfriend plotline we are somehow supposed to cheer for and find romantic??? I'm leaving two stars instead of one only because some of the visuals are nice.