Without Limits

1998

Action / Biography / Drama / Sport

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 91% · 39 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 7969 8K

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Plot summary

The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

Director

Robert Towne Photo
Robert Towne

Top cast

Ashley Johnson Photo
Ashley Johnson as Ian Stewart
Matthew Lillard Photo
Matthew Lillard as Roscoe Devine
Joseph Burke Photo
Joseph Burke as Campbell
Gabriel Olds Photo
Gabriel Olds as Don Kardong
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1.06 GB
1280*538
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
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1.97 GB
1904*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 22

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by irvinemax2 6 / 10

Could have been better...

I wish I knew more about Pre's background. As it stands, it doesn't seem there was much to his character other than sleeping with girls and running.I personally thought this movie would have had integrity and strength throughout from beginning to end. Sports films show the battles young people have to face to live up to not only others expectations of them but their own expectations of themselves. Some tasks are harder than others and its normally because either you don't feel your good enough or you don't feel others see you as good enough. If you give up you never find out if you really did have it in you to succeed. This movie did a good job of representing that. The runners in the movie were excellent, the acting was top notch. The fact that they did film the movie in Oregon and still made it into a wonderful experience is amazing. I would love to see more movies just like this to show to my own kids. It shows them to never give up on your dreams. That is why I like this movie despite the backstory flaws.
Reviewed by gbheron 7 / 10

Interesting Movie

Although a contemporary of Steve Prefontaine I had never heard of him, not being a fan of track and field. Nonetheless, Without Limits, a biographical film of Prefontaine, made middle-distance running interesting, even exciting. The racing scenes are not the reason to see this movie though, it is the acting, especially Donald Sutherland who plays Bill Bowerman his coach at the University of Oregon. The film follows Prefontaine (Crudup) from his admission to college in 1969 through the '72 Munich Olympics to his death in 1975 as he trained for Montreal. The axis around which the movie revolves is the relationship between wizened coach and impetuous youth, and Crudup and Sutherland do an excellent job of it. As a Baby Boomer it's always a treat to see those late '60s-early '70s years recreated. What memories. You even get to glimpse the founding of the Nike shoe empire in Bowerman's kitchen.
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