Cinema: Dubious Victory

RUNNING

Directed and Written by Steven Milliard Stern At first it seems that Running might turn out to be that salutary and as yet un realized item, a cautionary tale about a man who lets his passion for jogging run away with him. Michael Andropolis (Michael Douglas) is discovered living in a cold-water flat in one of Manhattan's least appetizing districts, a couple of attempts at a respectable career left behind, his wife and two young daughters abandoned also.

He has sacrificed everything, it seems, in order to take one last shot at a long-held dream: winning a place on the U.S. Olympic...

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