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Steel, Dawn. (Added Author). Siefert, Lynn. (Added Author). Ritchie, Michael, 1938-2001 (Added Author). Swerdlow, Tommy. (Added Author). Turteltaub, Jon. (Added Author). Leon (Leon Robinson) (Added Author). Doug, Doug E. (Added Author). Lewis, Rawle D. (Added Author). Yoba, Malik. (Added Author). Barry, Raymond J., 1939- (Added Author). Candy, John. (Added Author). Papamichael, Phedon. (Added Author). Zimmer, Hans. (Added Author). Walt Disney Pictures. (Added Author). Walt Disney Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Buena Vista Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba, Raymond J. Barry, Larry Gilman, Peter Outerbridge, Paul Coeur, John Candy. (Cast).

Summary: Based on a true story, this is the comedic saga of four Jamaican athletes going to extremes to compete as bobsled racers at the Winter Olympics. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, it's an uphill course for this troupe from the tropics who are sliding on thin ice as they go for the gold in Calgary, Canada. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, these four Jamaicans enlist the help of a down-and-out ex-champion American slider named Irv. Unavoidably drawn back to a sport he had come to loathe, Irv is faced with coaching a team of complete novices. But once committed, he is determined to turn them around and to somehow right the wrongs of his own failed career. It's a bumpy ride but with pride, determination, and dignity, the bobsledders make their impossible dreams come true.

Item details

ISBN: 0788816071
ISBN: 9780788816079
Physical Description: videodisc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [Burbank, Calif] : Walt Disney Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1999.
Copyright: ©1999

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Originally produced as motion picture in 1993. Includes theatrical trailer (2 min.).
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Bruce Green ; score by Hans Zimmer.
Participant or Performer Note:	Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba, Raymond J. Barry, Larry Gilman, Peter Outerbridge, Paul Coeur, John Candy.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: PG.
System Details Note:	DVD, region 1; Widescreen format (1.85:1); Dolby digital stereo. surround.
Language Note:	Closed-captioned.

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