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| Director: Robert Towne
Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore, Jim Moody
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 11201
Format: Color, Hifi Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 630026968X
UPC: 085391124238
EAN: 9786300269682
ASIN: 630026968X
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Release Date: April 1, 1992
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 Dated babes work up a sweat November 20, 2000
6 out of 25 found this review helpful
I'm sorry I cannot agree with the majority about this movie. Maybe it's one of those 'you gotta be there to get it' things (it might have been breathtaking in the 80's) but I found this film dated and sexist. The relationship between the two girl is unconvincing and titilating. The coach/athlete thing undevelopped, inexplicable. The only good thing going for it is that it is an ok sports movie, with some nice scenes depicting training. These however were inevitable intersperced with slow motion takes of the female athletes' crotches taken from various angles, fitting for a movie heavy on the sexploitation angle. I realise that this may have been a 'breakthrough' movie, maybe depicting for the first time a pretty actress taking a leak while babbling some juvenile dribble, or helping her boyfriend hold his d...... while he takes a leak as a sign of their intimacy, but frankly, that I can do without. Perhaps the movie could have been cut down and saved but I think even then all you would be left with is a cool 'eighties' soundtrack and two girls running around a track. All I can say is at least 'Charlies Angels' wasn't pretentious!
 I Love it! January 23, 2003
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I can see why this movie is on the list of favorites. It was very moving and showed the extreme emotions that love causes. I would highly recommend it.
Emotionally satisfying & realistic - comedy, pathos, passion November 25, 1998
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well-shot scenes of passion between the two lead actresses and (mostly) realistic track&field sequences make for exciting viewing. Scott Glenn does well in an early role. Most of the actors are real athletes. Just enough exploitation to titillate.
Ironic Movie July 15, 2004
Linda Levi (CA. USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I liked the movie when I saw it in the early 80s because of the break through "love" scenes and the sports theme. Right now I'm listening to a late night talk show interview with Mariel Hemmingway! I was drawn to this site because I was looking for some info on Jodi Anderson who acts in the movie. I knew her because she worked out in my gym in the 1980s and also worked there. In reality the sports part could have been based on her. In 1980 when she was 22 she won both the pentathlon and the long jump in the Olympic trials for the boycotted Moscow games. She also represented the USA in the pentathlon in the 1984 LA Olympics but was injured and withdrew. Considering the fame (and money) that USA female track athletes achieved in 1984 and later, the boycott was a tragedy for her and the other athletes most of whom are relatively unknown.
Watching again August 31, 2007
Jane M. Wolf (Kingman, AZ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found myself watching "Personal Best" again after several years. Robert Townde creates a movie of coming of age within the world of sports, focusing on the human bodies of women in training in a veritable and also erotic way. The interweaving of the love affair with the rigors of sports and competition is superb. Patrice Donnelly turns out to be the stronger actress, despite the fact that she is the sportswoman, not actress by trade. This is a classic movie as the first commercial movie with a lesbian scene - well worth seeing.
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