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Cool Runnings
Sunday, February 8 at 12:00 p.m.
Monday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Celebrate the beginning of the Winter Olympics with the Jamaican bobsled team!
Jamaican sprinter Derice has dreams of competing at the Olympics, but he never expected to be disqualified in the eligibility trials. Refusing to give up, he enlists the help of a disgraced former Olympian to train himself and three other athletes to become Jamaica's first bobsled team. The only problem is, how do you train a bobsled team that's never even seen snow before?
Based on the real story of Jamaica's inaugural bobsled team and featuring John Candy in one of his best roles, Cool Runnings is "a sweet-natured, high-spirited comedy, that rare movie that plays effectively to all ages. Even rarer, it celebrates genuine sportsmanship, placing the emphasis back on how the game is played in the face of the winning-is-everything philosophy that permeates every aspect of contemporary life."—Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times.
(PG-13, 108 min., 1993)