COOL RUNNINGS

Genre: Comedy
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Rated: G
Released: 1993
Country: US

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When Derice Bannock's (Leon Robinson) hopes of Olympic gold are crushed when he trips during Jamaica's qualifying heats, he comes up with a crazy scheme to get to the Olympics: as part of a bobsled team. He enlists the help of his best friend Sanka (Doug E. Doug), a go-cart racer, and two other sprinters. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, qualifying to compete for gold in Canada in just three months will be an uphill course. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, the Jamaicans enlist the help of a down-and-out ex-champion American slider named Irv (John Candy). Unavoidably drawn back to a sport he had come to loathe, Irv is faced with coaching a team of complete novices. But once committed, he is determined to turn them around and to somehow right the wrongs of his own failed career.