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  Review by Ben ★★★★

  A completely horned up Olympian Michael Douglas teaches me to never give up. be it making love to your ex wife who may or may not of made love with you boss, or falling down in a big pile of leaves durng the Olympics this guy never quits and I think he died because of it.

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  Review by JackkLeo ★★★

  It ain’t about how fast you can run…

  On the heels of Rocky, Running stars a young Michael Douglas as a man losing in life, committed to proving there’s something he won’t give up on in an attempt to win the missus back. Winning a marathon. Essentially it’s Run Fatboy Run minus the humour. 

  I think this is a bit of a forgotten gem. I watched it on a cruddy looking 4:3 DVD format which certainly isn’t the best. In my opinion, Running deserves a remastered release from some boutique distributor or something because it’s not without merit. 

  Although derivative, it is an earnest film. I loved the bit when Douglas kicks off at the job centre. Douglas is also giving probably…

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  Review by ReelMan ★★★

  40th anniversary viewing.

  I might be one of a dozen moviegoers who actually saw this in its initial release in 1979.

  And I might be one of the three viewers who admire it despite its low-budget melodramatics. For me, its final minutes are as emotionally involving as the final round in Rocky. If you're a Michael Douglas fan, this is a must-see. Nothing else he's ever done is as physically punishing as his work in Running.

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  Review by filmkuratorium ★★★½ 2

  Der junge Michael Douglas, noch ganz frisch aus den „Straßen von San Francisco“ zugrückgekehrt, spielt Michael Andropolis, einen Anfang Dreißigjährigen, der getrennt von seiner Familie in einem ziemlich ranzigen New Yorker Appartement lebt. Das ist der Preis für seine Passion, den Marathon-Lauf. Wenn Andropolis das Haus verlässt, rennt er einfach los, meilenweit, stundenlang, egal, ob im Anzug oder Sportdress. Die Krawatte wird dann eben zum Schweißband umfunktioniert. Sein Ziel ist die Qualifikation für die olympischen Spiele in Montreal 1980.
  „Running“ erzählt eine gute, bisweilen sogar berührende Geschichte, mit starken Schauspielern. Zu sehen sind der unverbrauchte Michael Douglas – selbst inzwischen alte Douglas-Klassiker wie „Auf der Jagd nach dem grünen Diamanten“ (1984) waren da noch Zukunftsmusik; oder Eugene Levy, einer ganzen…

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  Review by Fabak ★★★

  Film devenu un peu inaperçu dans la filmographie de Michael Douglas. 
  Je l’ai vu une première fois à l’âge de 12 ans plus ou moins et je me souviens d’avoir été super ému par la fin, les larmes aux yeux…au moins.
  Aujourd’hui je me rends compte que c’est assez mal réalisé, Michael Douglas a une belle présence, mais le gars ne fait que courir presque tout du long, la musique est sans doute tirée d’une sitcom brésilienne, bref pas mal de défauts…et pourtant il arrive encore à me choper une nouvelle fois avec sa fin.
  Inexplicable.

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  Review by Michael ★★★

  via DVD.

  Low key running Movie with Michael Douglas. I enjoyed it enough, but the Movie seems very invested in the wonky relationship he has with his ex-wife more than anything else. Still, Douglas makes it work, and you do root for him by the end.

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  Review by Axioms

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Anthony Nield

  It wasn’t Rocky that changed the course of the sports movie, it was the sequels. Rocky was Marty with some boxing – and Running, released just a few months after Rocky II hit cinemas, is primarily a middle-class divorce drama (as was popular at the time) with some running. And maybe that’s why it’s fallen off the radar when it comes to Michael Douglas movies. You can see aspects of Douglas roles to come in his white-collar dropout with two kids and divorce papers that he doesn’t want to sign. You can definitely see some of William Foster, his Falling Down character, when he blows up in an unemployment office (fortunately, the running allows him to immediately let off steam).…

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  Review by Gary Allen ★★½

  Kind of a Rocky knockoff but with running. Decent sports film that came out 3 years after the Montreal Olympics were the events were depicted. They used actual marathon footage from that event in this film. Look for a young Giancarlo Esposito in what I believe was his first film role, Eugene Levy in a cameo, and also a pre-SNL Robin Duke.

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  Review by Paul Shane's Legendary Rock and Roll Show ★★

  Resembles an SCTV parody even before an over-ripe Eugene Levy turns up.

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  Review by dmills ★★★½

  Heart warming story that ends up heart wrenching. Then fucking inspiring. Damn I was crying. Then I was ready to run thru a fucking wall. Can't believe MD created the viral video.

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  Review by Alquimia ★★

  Es algo maniquea e insulsa, me falta más enganche para acabar de convencerme, es muy artificiosa y se le ven las intenciones.