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By Lindsay A (113) on 15 Oct 2008

Truly original film--without being gimmicky or pretentious--and the kind that makes you forget occasionally that you're watching actors…

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By Aimee C (118) on 01 Sep 2008

Good movie with a couple of shocking scenes.:P…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 03 Aug 2008

Neither slick nor glib, they all suit a film that may finally disarm everyone with its full-frontal naturalness, its unsmirking bawdiness,…

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By John T (2,122) on 25 Jul 2008

A really great movie all around, although some of the slow-action-tension shots close together get trying…

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By Private U (13,627) on 18 Feb 2008

Groundbreaking film now looks like mildly ambitious softcore lesbian porn…

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By Adrienne R (41) on 25 Jan 2008

This was a great daringlove story for 1982. Patrice Donnelly was hot in this movie. I can't believe there isn't a photo of her anywhere on the web…

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By Richard S (2,067) on 12 Jan 2008

Good film to watch on TV. Scott Glenn is very good in the film…

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By Frances W (27) on 07 Jan 2008

What an odd..odd..les movie. In the very beginning, the girl (short hair) I thought was femme turned out to be more on the butch side…

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By Daniel B (1,494) on 26 Mar 2007

Mariel Hemingway in her first lesbian character role…

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By Mary . (84) on 18 Jan 2007

This is a movei taht makes marie hmibngway the best. its about a girl who is in athe olympics. their both like confused about the sexualtiy…

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By Edward N (23) on 27 Sep 2006

Great sports movie that happens to also be a great lesbian drama. Alright by me! A good, sexy, exciting movie that does work up a sweat…

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By Laurie - (27) on 24 Mar 2006

Pretty good.. pretty old.. could have been better…

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By Kevin S (2,121) on 10 Mar 2006

A very good movie, one of my favorites of Mariel Hemmingway…

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By Derek Adams (271) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2006

The sort of nerve required to produce an excellent screenplay like Chinatown seems to have deserted Towne in this, his directorial debut…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Aug 2004

Unless you're fascinated by all of the prettified slow-motion footage of Chris, Tory and the other women athletes, your eye is likely to wander…

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By Dragan Antulov (311) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Apr 2003

Hemingway excels in a difficult and risky role…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 24 Jan 2002

A robust and adventuresome film that is both tough and sentimental in its portrait of Olympic grade women athletes…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

The characters have a fullness and vitality rare in American films of that period, but Towne has so much trouble establishing information visually…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Apr 1993

What distinguishes Personal Best is that it creates specific characters--flesh-and-blood people with interesting personalities, people I cared…

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By Pamel Kessler (1) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Mar 1983

What lends the movie authenticity is that most of the people in it really are Olympic athletes and record-holders, and they show that they…

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