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Cool Runnings (1993)

★ 7.0 · 2,274 ratings on TMDB

One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero.

Cool Runnings poster★ 7.0

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.

DirectorJon Turteltaub
CastCharles Hyatt, Doug E. Doug, John Candy, Larry Gilman, Leon, Malik Yoba
GenresAdventure, Comedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Cool Runnings keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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