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Cool Runnings

1993 · Movie · 98 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer76%as of 2024-10-31
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.1/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic60/100as of 2024-11-10

What it is

Cool Runnings is a 1993 American sports comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, and Michael Goldberg, and a story by Siefert and Michael Ritchie. It is loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, and stars Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba and John Candy.

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Genres
Comedy
Original language
English

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