Obviously Fake Running Performances in Movies and TV

I don't know if it counts since it was a comedy, but in Get Smart the female Agent 99 claims to have run a 4:50 mile, while obviously trotting along leisurely.

Watched Endurance again the other day, and in that movie they portrayed Haile Gebrselassie coming in 99th place in a marathon. What an unbelievably absurd scenario! And who was that imposter playing Haile? His running form was just terrible.

I feel like it's a little too obvious to say Forrest Gump, but...

I'm old enough to remember the film "Goldengirl" in which Susan Anton played a scientifically engineered super sprinter. In the race sequences, you could see the other women trying really hard not to outrun her.

They always run so slow for the camera.

In Prefontaine he breaks the AR in 13:22, then the entire field finishes five seconds later.

Run, Fatboy, Run especially in the marathon at the end where the lead runners are jogging slowly when they are said to be racing

Any show/film that has an old white cop running down teenage 'guys from the hood'.

In this Lifetime movie, the girls actually looked like they were trained runners, complete with a good hard finishing kick all the way to the finish. It looked like they were finishing up a set of hard intervals. But really, all these random girls on the team finishing <17:30 within 5 seconds in a 5K time trial to make a team, and no stragglers in the back looked kind of funny.

In my opinion the worst running movie ever made was Chasing a Dream by the Hallmark Channel. The bigger kid, who is the main character, has a HS friend who has run something like 4:02 for the mile like 10 times and is trying to break 4. So he dies and his friend now decides he will break 4 in his memory.

This page has the trailer, but good to watch the movie to laugh and cringe.

http://www.brycezabel.com/newsviews/2009/04/chasing.html

heres a picture of the main character as well.

http://racingnews.runnersworld.com/2009/04/hallmark-tv-movie-chasing-a-dream-debuts-saturday-april-25-high-school-kid-chases-a-4-minute-mile.html

Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. He runs like a retarded, 12 year old girl.

Push Alt F4 wrote:

In my opinion the worst running movie ever made was Chasing a Dream by the Hallmark Channel. The bigger kid, who is the main character, has a HS friend who has run something like 4:02 for the mile like 10 times and is trying to break 4. So he dies and his friend now decides he will break 4 in his memory.

This page has the trailer, but good to watch the movie to laugh and cringe.

The writer of that film sports a 24:50 5K PR, but not for lack of effort. He's run 100-150 of them.

Malamute wrote:

In this Lifetime movie, the girls actually looked like they were trained runners, complete with a good hard finishing kick all the way to the finish. It looked like they were finishing up a set of hard intervals. But really, all these random girls on the team finishing <17:30 within 5 seconds in a 5K time trial to make a team, and no stragglers in the back looked kind of funny.

Um . . . you forgot the part about my WIFE was watching a Lifetime movie . . .

Saint Ralph's 14 year old kid who trains for a few months and places 2nd at Boston has to be high up on the list. Despite the fantasy story line, I enjoyed the movie.

I can't believe nobody has said this yet, but Across the Tracks with Brad Pitt and Ricky Schroeder has some terrible running scenes in it.

My favorite line:

Brad Pitt "Coach, I want to run for Stanford."

Coach "You're not fast enough"

Pitt "But you ran for Stanford"

Coach "Yeah, but I was the best miler in the COUNTY!"

Push Alt F4 wrote:

In my opinion the worst running movie ever made was Chasing a Dream by the Hallmark Channel. The bigger kid, who is the main character, has a HS friend who has run something like 4:02 for the mile like 10 times and is trying to break 4. So he dies and his friend now decides he will break 4 in his memory.

It's on youtube.

jordanian wrote:

Push Alt F4 wrote:

In my opinion the worst running movie ever made was Chasing a Dream by the Hallmark Channel. The bigger kid, who is the main character, has a HS friend who has run something like 4:02 for the mile like 10 times and is trying to break 4. So he dies and his friend now decides he will break 4 in his memory.

It's on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KerRVrAHhE&feature=related

Good find, followed the link and already the first 4 minutes made me squirm in my seat.

How'd he do that with his mouth when he was about to drop out of the mile.

Keyrist- he couldn't finish a mile after going out in 2:09 and they're concerned that he doesn't have a sub 4 in him? Neither do any of my runners, I think I'll talk to their AD/Football coach/out of control fathers about their odds of getting a football scholarship.

I saw an Australian TV programme where two plainclothes detectives were chasing a criminal, eyeballs out, for over a mile through an airport.

That they were able to sprint for over a mile without appearing to get out of breath wasn’t the most laughable aspect - it was the fact that they ran the whole distance alongside each other!

It never occurred to the director that it was virtually impossible that two civilians would run all out for a mile at exactly the same pace.

But if you want to see running at it’s most hilarious - watch a film called The Games (1970)

The worst movie ever made about running.

Staring Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal and Charles Aznavour.

If you do not watch the last 10 minutes of this, your life will not be complete.

jordanian wrote:

[quote]Push Alt F4 wrote:

It's on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KerRVrAHhE&feature=related