Release Year: 1993 Rating: PG Duration: 98 minutes Director: Jon Turteltaub Producer: Dawn Steel
synopsis
Inspired by the true story of the first Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team. The always appealing Candy is the ex-champion who takes on the four islanders who know nothing about the sport and whips them into champions.
cast
Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie John Candy as Irving 'Irv' Blitzer Leon as Derice Bannock Malik Yoba as Yul Brenner
"Life imitates art" is a phrase used to describe those rare instances when random set of circumstances recreates events that look like they belonged to the work of, usually bad, fiction. When those works of fiction become omnipresent in popular media and continue to be made for decades, sooner or later they will be recreated in real life, either by inspiring people or by pure chance. Good example could be found in Disney's sports films in which underdogs triumph against all odds and all reason. In 1988 something looking like the plot of Disney's sport film actually happened in real life and later become subject of Disney's sport film. The events in question were covered in COOL RUNNINGS, 1993 sports drama directed by Jon Turtletaub.
