![]() Set seven American speed records in the process), the track star is seen here as captivatingly arrogant in ways his coach can neither resist nor really change. As a maverick who could rebel his way to the finish line (and The renowned coach Bill Bowerman, played by with great, wry authority by Donald Sutherland, appears to have met his match in Prefontaine's enigmatic nature. On an Oregon hillside, with a tranquil unspoiled landscape in the background, the film's two principals match philosophies so intensely that they might be discussing Eastern religion, even if their ostensible subject is Prefontaine's runningĬareer. Its wisdom, and clearly Towne's, lies in the film's way of filtering a young man's headstrong nature through an older man's more rueful point of view.īilly Crudup as Steve Prefontaine in Robert Towne's "Without Limits." And precisely because this sports story is not about winning, losing or even how you play the game, it becomes a broader parable than the Life has taken on a curiously amorphous subject and invested it with deep, reflective power. In "Without Limits," a writer famed for enriching screenplays (his own and others') with the gift of unruly, unpredictable Towne's Prefontaine biography is the most stirring and unmistakably personal film he has directed. Hough the link between the mercurial track star Steve Prefontaine, who died in 1975 at 24, and the veteran Hollywood screenwriter Robert Towne is not immediately obvious, ![]() The New York Times on the Web: Current Film.'Without Limits': Finishing First, Even When He Didn'tįILM REVIEW 'Without Limits': Finishing First, Even When He Didn't ![]()
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