Prefontaine

1997

Action / Biography / Drama / Romance / Sport

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78% · 35 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 7942 7.9K

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Plot summary

It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a running rebel who defied rules, pushed limits ... and smashed records ...

Director

Steve James Photo
Steve James

Top cast

Jared Leto Photo
Jared Leto as Steve Prefontaine
Wally Dalton Photo
Wally Dalton as Dick Buerkle
Tyler Jon Olson Photo
Tyler Jon Olson as Olympic Teammate
Henri Lubatti Photo
Henri Lubatti as Frank Shorter
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
796.47 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 5
1.63 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bkoganbing 8 / 10

Steve Prefontaine 1951-1975

Reviewed by oregon123 6 / 10

Watchable

Prefontaine's life is what makes this movie watchable, not so much the movie itself. However, Jared Leto as Pre, and R. Lee Ermey and Ed O'Neill as Bill Bowerman and Bill Dellinger, respectively (Pre's coaches), offer good, convincing portraits of these historic sports figures. On the minus side, the sound track sounds like it belongs in a 70's made for TV movie, and the film's stadium scenes are unconvincing because the shots of fans are done close up to hide the obvious fact that there's only a hundred people or so in the stands and not the thousands that watched Pre race in reality. The producers should either have spent the money to pay for more actual footage of Pre's races, or paid for the extras to make the stadium scenes more convincing.
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