Double Feature
Personal Best
This directorial debut of Chinatown Oscar winning screenwriter Robert Towne is a bracing celebration of athletes who live the way they play: with total passion. Mariel Hemingway plays a promising hurdler who finds needed emotional and athletic seasoning with a caring mentor (Patrice Donnelly). After the two women fall in love, their relationship is threatened as both vie for a spot on the 1980 United States Olympic team. Personal Best’s human insights make it compelling for more than just sports fans. Months of training build into explosive moments of competitive truth. Cameras capture the charged atmosphere of the 1980 Olympic Trials. And world-class athletes (including Olympians Donnelly, Jodi Anderson and Kenny Moore) excel as actors, bringing to the set the same poise they show on the track. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Robert Towne
- Writer
- Robert Towne
- Starring
- Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore
- Year
- 1982
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 128 minutes
Star 80
She was every man’s dream and one man’s obsession. Bob Fosse writes & directs an unblinking biography of model and actress Dorothy Stratten, adapting Teresa Carpenter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice article “Death of a Playmate” to explore the tragic end of a Hollywood fairy tale. Mariel Hemingway plays the doomed Playmate, while a terrifyingly hypnotic Eric Roberts plays her hateful husband.
- Director
- Bob Fosse
- Writer
- Written by Bob Fossee based in part on "Death of a Playmate" by Teresa Carpenter
- Starring
- Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees, David Clennon
- Year
- 1983
- Rated
- R
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 103 minutes