142 Cool Runnings (1993)

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s podcast time! We’re feeling very Olympic today as we discuss Cool Runnings, the story of the Jamaican bobsled team in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. We discuss late eighties fashion, the cold hard truth of the cold, teaching kids about racism, the lessons we learn from failure, countless one- liners, and much more!

 

Cool Runnings is a 1993 American comedy sports film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba, and John Candy. It is loosely based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team's debut in competition during the 1988 Winter Olympics. Cool Runnings was released in the United States on October 1, 1993 to generally positive reviews. The film's soundtrack also became popular with Jimmy Cliff performing a cover of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now", which reached the top 40 as a single in the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.