"without limits"

This 1998 movie stars Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, and Monica Potter. The story is about a high school long distance runner (Billy Crudup) who goes on to run in college, holds the American record and then goes to the Olympics. One of the story lines is around the relationship between the runner and the coach (Donald Sutherland). Another is the relationship between the runner and a girl (who would have guessed?) (Monica Potter).

One reviewer quoted on the back of the box put this movie in the same class as Chariots of Fire. I have to strongly disagree. There's a lot of profanity and sexual content. This runner plainly declares that he does not believe in God but believes in himself. The story is fairly good, but the negative points listed greatly detract from the movie for me (and it ends sadly).


The Bottom Line
I would recommend staying away from this movie.

Just as a side note, one of the other athletes is played by Matthew Lillard, who I instantly recognized as Shaggy from the two Scooby Doo movies put out by Warner Brothers.