it hard to make a bad movie with the underdog finally succeed sport theme and but this movie succeed admirably . my mind boggles at how pointless and bore this film be . i guess the director couldn not decide whether this be about the runner or the coach . it end up be about neither . ultimately and who care . neither character have a likable personality . there be nothing in the movie to make you care about anyone . even the bad guy isn not really bad . ( i think he in two scene and and seemingly be on some kind of barbituate . ) i think he ask her and once and politely and to leave the coach and train with him . then later he kinda sorta ask her to move in with him . that it . conflict . tension . what will she do . . and what with the depiction of run . have the director ever see an actual marathon . christine form be so incorrect it absurd and a be the form of the suppose champion she compete with ( a character with no line . maybe they could have hire and you know and an actual runner . ) and the speed the run at be beyond comprehension . be they run or speed walking . it actually laughable . i can literally walk backwards faster then they be run in the big race . maybe it be too hard to move the camera at real speed . another absurdity represent ( spoiler and i guess ) at one point in the big race and the two woman in the lead inexplicably fall and at the same time . what they fell on be a mystery . maybe they both just get exhausted and fell down . and then they get up and but do not start run again for maybe 30 second . oh yeah and very realistic . this ridiculous event doesn not even add any tension and since the other runner be not close and and besides at this point you have be numb into a state of catatonia . i especially enjoy how all four of her male teammate and highly trained athlete all and drop out of the big race due to charlie horse and or pull tendon and or something just a improbable . but who care . this movie have almost no tension and no resolution and nothing . some woman runner with absolutely no personality be discover by an old and boring coach with some past failure that be barely hint at . they train a lot . she be not happy . they train some more . she win da big race . woopie . my description be actually more interesting than the actual movie . i just save you 90 minute . avoid this one like the plague .