Robert Redford,
Gene Hackman,
Camilla Sparv,
Karl Michael Vogler,
Jim McMullan
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Director Michael Ritchie's ongoing satirical spin on the American Dream is dressed up in quasi-documentary fashion in Downhill Racer. Robert Redford stars as an Olympic-grade skier, whose talent is ma... read more
DVD Release Date: November 17, 2009
Stats: 76 reviews
I liked the fact that it went away from the total cliches of most sports films and thought it was interesting to see Redford play such a almost souless person whose entire existence is about going faster and ultimately winning. You can't help but think of Redford as ballsy for pu... read more
Well crafted film (about to be released on Criterion) about the US ski team in the late 60's. Micheal Ritchie creates a very real film that is almost like watching a Maysles' documentary at times (who could have foreseen he would go on to make movies like Bad News Bears and Flet... read more
A movie like this would come out today and just be turned into a video game. I love how the story is straight forward and there a no sport movie cliches, and the end of film is an amazing payoff...great fucking ending!!!
Visually pleasing, but the scriptwork is pure bore-fest.
Crisp colors and camerawork extensively gander at 1970ish Alpine slopes and townships, while Redford races down them - and around them in a yellow Porsche Carrera 911.
Imagine the perfect 1968 long-legged Euro-blonde dr... read more
The best movie ever made about sports -- without really being about sports at all. Full Review
It's better than most sports films since it avoids sentimentality and falsely romanticizing its unsympathetic egotistical hero. Full Review
... the downhill runs are shot and edited with a visceral quality that takes us off the sidelines and into the skier's perspective. Full Review
could be lumped into the convenient category of "uplifting sports drama," but in fact is a challenging deconstruction of all the underdog clichés associated with that genre Full Review
Downhill Racer stands as lean condemnation of the calculating underdog clichés Rocky would bring make the norm. Full Review
An influential and extremely well-done sports film, worth watching even if you don't normally enjoy films of this type. Full Review
The location skiing sequences, revealing Ritchie's background and interest in documentary styles, are simply astounding, even for those with little interest in the sport. Full Review
Redford, just breaking into superstardom, gives one of his cool, self-centred, cynical performances as an undisciplined Olympic skier. Full Review
Robert Redford as the world's most unlikable skier! Full Review
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