The Long Run [DVD] [2001]

The suburbs of Pretoria, South Africa, are dabbed in primary colors -- walls, doorways, cars, even the landscape itself -- which are gorgeously rendered in anamorphic widescreen and a 1.85:1 transfer. The crystal quality of the image conveys to the Dolby Digital Surround sound, and the soundtrack is in both English and French. For those just interested in the movie, the disc will serve very well indeed. Filmmaker and cast bios are included for those who want to see that Nthati Moshesh really is a beginning actress, and the theatrical trailer is tagged on as well. There are no other features other than a DVD-ROM link which is a cumbersome way of getting to Universal Studios' website; once you're there, there is nothing special loaded in for the movie.
: Language:English
: Program Type:Movie
: Screen Format:Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
: Studio:Universal Studios
: Region Code:1
: Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
: Format:DVD
: Product Name:The Long Run [DVD] [2001]
: Product Tags:DVD
: Subtitles:English
An elderly man tries to achieve one of his greatest ambitions by turning a rank amateur into a champion in this drama. German-born Bertold Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) was a competitive distance runner in his youth who had one great dream -- to win the Comrades Marathon, a punishing 54-mile race that stretches between two cities through an arid desert in South Africa. Now in his mid-sixties and living in South Africa, Bohmer never achieved this goal, but as a trainer he's helped a number of other athletes achieve theirs, and he's coaching four African runners as they prepare for the Comrades. But Bohmer is abruptly fired from his training assignment, only to be replaced by a much younger man, Gasa (Paterson Joseph), who refocuses his runners in middle-distance competition. Bohmer is despondent until he discovers Christine (Nthati Moshesh), a young woman he sees jogging one day. Bohmer's trained eye tells him that she has the natural gifts and talent to win the Comrades, but he learns that she's never trained for a competitive athletic event in her life -- and she's an illegal alien from Namibia to boot. After a police raid on her home, Christine has little recourse but to accept Bohmer's invitation to stay with him, and while he spares no expense in coaching her for the Comrades, she begins to chafe under his rigorous training program; furthermore, when Gasa hears about the remarkable new runner Bohmer has discovered, he tries to convince her to join his team. Renowned South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo contributed several songs to The Long Run's soundtrack.~Mark Deming
Name : Armin Mueller-Stahl: Role : Bertold Bohmer
Name : Nthati Moshesh: Role : Christine
Name : Paterson Joseph: Role : Gasa
Name : Jean Stewart: Role : Director
Name : Anant Singh: Role : Producer
Name : Helena Spring: Role : Producer
Name : Johann Potgieter: Role : Screenwriter
Name : Trevor Jones: Role : Composer (Music Score)
Name : Avril Beukes: Role : Editor
Name : Sanjeev Singh: Role : Executive Producer
Name : Sudhir Pragjee: Role : Executive Producer
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