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2. Cool Runnings - Wikipedia

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   Cool Runnings is a 1993 American sports comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub from a screenplay by Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, and Michael Goldberg, and a story by Siefert and Michael Ritchie. It is loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics , and stars Leon , Doug E. Doug , Rawle D. Lewis ...

3. Cool Runnings at 30, as told by its stars: ‘They wanted us to ...

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   Updated September 30, 2023 at 5:49 AM. One of the decade’s most enduring underdog stories: Doug E Doug, Malik Yoba, Rawle D Lewis, John Candy and Leon in ‘Cool Runnings’ (Shutterstock) What ...

4. Jamaica at the 1988 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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   The story of the Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics was turned into the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. [7] However, the film was only loosely based on actual events, with real-life coach Pat Brown later saying that the team had never experienced any of the animosity from the other teams as depicted in the movie. [8]

5. Jamaica national bobsleigh team - Wikipedia

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   The Jamaica national bobsleigh team represents Jamaica in international bobsleighing competitions. The men's team debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games four-man bobsleigh in Calgary, Alberta, [ 1] was received as underdogs in a cold weather sport represented by a nation with a tropical environment. Jamaica returned to the Winter Olympics in ...

6. 'Next Goal Wins': Taiki Waititi on sports comedy's central ...

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   Whereas in the 1993 hit Cool Runnings, the subject was the Jamaican bobsled team’s unlikely quest to crash the 1988 Winter Olympics, ... says he loved telling a true story, and was especially ...

7. ‘Cool Runnings’ Director Battled Disney Over Jamaican Accents ...

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   With Disney’s beloved sports comedy “Cool Runnings” celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, director Jon Turteltaub and the cast reunited for an interview with The Independent and ...

8. Doug E. Doug - Wikipedia

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   Doug is known to movie viewers for his starring role as the spirited pushcart driver turned bobsled racer in Cool Runnings. The movie is loosely based on the true story of the first Jamaica national bobsled team trying to make it to the Winter Olympics. Doug is also known for his roles as the ne'er do well Willie Stevens in Hangin' with the ...

9. 'Cool Runnings' director on the original, dark version the ...

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   Instead, Cool Runnings was first intended to be a much darker film that would have involved drugs and violence. Yahoo Entertainment spoke with the movie's director, Jon Turteltaub, about what ...