The Long Run

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  • Director: Jean Stewart
  • Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nthati Moshesh, Paterson Joseph
  • Genre: DramaSport
  • Premiere: 2001
  • Running time: 112 min
  • Rated: R

The Comrades Marathon is a 90K race in South Africa. Aging running coach Barry wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living in his house and following his diet-and-training regiment. But when his single-mindedness gets to her, she wants a job and her own place. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants to lure her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race?

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