Without Limits

Without Limits
by Robert Towne

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Actor: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Jeremy Sisto, Matthew Lillard, Monica Potter
Director: Robert Towne
Brand: Team Marketing
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Without Limits

DVD Review: Motivation for runners of all ages
Summary: 5 Stars

I have shared this movie with the local track team and it always draws an emotional response. It is a great movie for challenging teens to reach for their dreams- while not letting other influences and partying or just plain bad luck detract from their lives. And it does this without being preachy. This is one of my favorite actors, Billy Crudup's greatest movies.

DVD Review: Great Pick me up
Summary: 4 Stars

Great movie that seems to follow closely to the actual history of this runner. Enjoyable, and as an ex-runner, I felt very connected.

DVD Review: GO PRE GO !!
Summary: 5 Stars

It's hard to say anything bad about a movie which features the life story of a terrific athlete who died way too young. Since the object of this film died in a car wreck at age 24, it seems it's somehow "off-limits" to be critical of "Without Limits" -- the compelling story of 1970s long distance phenom Steve Prefontaine, of the University of Oregon.

But this movie earns praise. You don't have to love long-distance running to love this movie, and love Pre even more. Like Springsteen, you get the sense Pre could have been a member of his own audience -- yelling "Go Pre, you bleepity-bleep!" out at himself.

The film spawned a resurgence in Pre gear. Go to www.cafepress.com and order up a "Go Pre" tee-shirt, among other items, if you wish.

Pre was a hard-working "cab driver," with a real personality, in a sport routinely dominated by the more aloof "jet set."

Get Pre ... Go Pre !!

DVD Review: Pre's Legacy in Eugene OR
Summary: 4 Stars

Dear Prospective Buyer,

I must disclose first that I am a resident of Eugene, Oregon or "Track
Town, USA" (we are greatly anticipating the 2008 US Olympic Trials here at the end of June). so I may be a bit biased on this subject. This movie is well-written, acted, filmed and examines the life of Pre "warts and all". It is also the only movie (there is another) that included the participation of Bill Bowerman (Pre's coach) and other former members of the team with which Pre ran. Not only is Billy Crudup's likeness to Pre amazing, but he portrays him quite well! There are also segments that refer to Bowerman's constant experimentations for better shoes for his runners (leading to the founding of Nike). While Donald Sutherland does not look like Bowerman, he was able to project the wonderful mannerisms, jests and straight-talk for which Bowerman was infamous. While I am not currently a runner, when I was, I was in awe of the Univ. of Oregon track teams in the late 60's and early 70's, including the years Steve Prefontaine attended the school. As an aside, a good friend's father was a teammate of Pre's at Marshfield H.S. in Coos Bay, OR. There is a palpable pride of and aura about the legend of Pre here in Eugene even for us non-runners. The Oregon Track Club even maintains a bark running trail near the Willamette River that Pre first initiated upon his introduction to them in Europe. Enjoy.

As an adjunct to this movie, I can recommend the biography by Kenny Moore (former Pre teammate, long-time writer for Sports Illustrated and Eugene native-a good friend of mine owns the house he grew up in) about the late, illustrious U of O coach, "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon". Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder I was especially pleased to learn that Bowerman's great- and grand-parents founded and settled the little town of Fossil in Eastern Oregon because it was where my father was born when my maternal grand-father owned a blacksmith shop there in the late 1800's. The book is full of wonderful Oregon and track history. If you also purchase the book, you will have given yourself two wonderful gems.
Charlotte Brandt, Eugene, OR

DVD Review: Moronic Wilkins and Sex...that's about it
Summary: 2 Stars

I am amazed that anyone could consider this a good film. You see, when I go to a movie I don't need to know the size of a man's private part coupled with my Christian faith. Secondly, Mac Wilkins is portrayed as a hulking moron. Is it not safe to assume that producers/writers of this film have yet to graduate from Junior High? This is obviously their level of development. Rent "Prefontaine" with Jared Leto. Respect the memory of the Coos Bay native with a film worthy of his memory. GO PRE! To the writers of "Without Limits" > GO AWAY!

Description of Without Limits

The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.

Since audiences are inclined to F/X spectacle, it was easy to understand the 1998 box-office battle between Armageddon and Deep Impact, which shared almost exactly the same premise. But two films about the now-obscure long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine? Without Limits and Prefontaine were in production at the same time, with the cheaper Prefontaine rushed into theaters in 1997 while Without Limits was held back until the fall of '98. As it turned out, neither movie scored a deep impact at the box office, but Without Limits is much more satisfying as a competent, heartfelt slice of sports history. Billy Crudup (a rising star who strongly resembles the film's producer, Tom Cruise, in both looks and intensity) plays Prefontaine, or "Pre," the mustachioed runner who blazed out of Coos Bay, Oregon, in the late 1960s. The movie grazes across the major events of Pre's career at the University of Oregon, where he blew away the competition and positioned himself as the leading American runner (and a charismatic hunk) going into the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich--that star-crossed competition at which Arab terrorists kidnapped and killed members of the Israeli team. Though the film suffers from some of the built-in problems of the true-life biopic, director Robert Towne (who earlier made a remarkable track-and-field picture, Personal Best) captures the texture of the athletes' world. Acting honors go to Donald Sutherland, turning in an emotional performance as coach Bill Bowerman; while tutoring Pre, Bowerman was tinkering with some waffle-soled running shoes, a hobby that later became a little company called Nike. --Robert Horton

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