I'm watching the movie "4 Minute Mile" on Netflix and have one question

Whatever, 2 questions: what was the deal with that 400 meter "race" in which they didn't run in lanes and wore T-shirts/basketball shorts?

They can afford Kim Basinger but not a couple of singlet tops?

Who is Kim Basinger?

Need more info wrote:

Who is Kim Basinger?

Shes known for her most famous role.... Eminems mom in the movie "8 mile"

She has a goddam Oscar! Why is she in this movie and only has 5 minutes of screen time?

Need more info wrote:

Who is Kim Basinger?

She was a Ford Agency model in the1970,perhaps most famous for her Breck Shampoo commercials. Unhappy as a model she switched to acting.

What I wondered during that movie was why the cops didn't find a kid running back and forth across town in the middle of the night odd and worth checking into.

Why?To collect a paycheck.

Producers pay good bucks for a day or twos work from well known box office draws/Academy Award winners. Great for use in trailers, print advertising and getting second round funding.

It is also good PR for her as she re-launches her modeling career. Her daughter Ireland is just starting her own modeling career now too.

Lenny Potts wrote:

How did they get Kim Basinger to do this movie?

Kim Basinger? How old are you, gramps?

Good PR to have a 5 minute role in a movie that no one has ever heard of?

Couldn't they have gone a little cheaper and hired Teri Garr instead? That might have meant some more money to hire better actors in the leading roles.

Actually, i did like the old guy who played the coach. The script gave him a lot of cliched tripe for dialogue and he managed to deliver it without sounding cheesy. If a worse actor had been cast in that role, the movie would have been unwatchable.

Do runners actually do all this wierd crossfit training? Running through a creek? Carrying tires underwater? I guess the coach telling him to run more slow junk miles isnt as appealing to the eye

Jimmy21 wrote:

Do runners actually do all this wierd crossfit training? Running through a creek? Carrying tires underwater? I guess the coach telling him to run more slow junk miles isnt as appealing to the eye

No, no one does any of that. Every sports movie since Rocky has dumb montages with wacky training regimens such as this. And this movie tried very hard to hit every sports movie cliche from the past 40 years. When the coach makes the kid fix up his boat he even references Mr Miyagi in the original Karate Kid movie, "wax on, wax off". Nice that they cited their reference on that one. I was just impressed that they didn't have the kid mumble "Sand the boat..sand the boat!" during his big run.

Honestly, it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen in all of my days

Jimmy21 wrote:

Shes known for her most famous role.... Eminems mom in the movie "8 mile"

Um ... ever heard of 9 1/2 weeks? Or LA Confidential? Or Jordan Hasay?

My question is about the final mile the guy ran on the docks. So, early on it seemed like the route he was running was a quarter mile. Did he run a double out and back to get the mile, or was that a different route than from earlier? Or, was it a mile route with the quarters marked? The movie was unclear on this point.

Also, was the route certified? With a wheel? I think the old man probably used the odometer in his crappy truck, so likely that was a short course.

Lenny Potts wrote:

She has a goddam Oscar! Why is she in this movie and only has 5 minutes of screen time?

Your sentences are backwards

Ireland Baldwins Mom

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What is the plot of this movie? It doesn't sound like it is about Bannister

chyna wrote:

What is the plot of this movie? It doesn't sound like it is about Bannister

Young kid runs faster than older kids on the beach, but then his dad dies.

10 years later: Kid is now senior in high school and is a 400 meter runner but quits team for some reason. Kid's older brother is criminal type and makes him run payments to his supplier? Assumed they were drug dealers but not exactly clear. Their mom, Kim Basinger, looks like she has been doing drugs but is more or less nice. Older brother is an asshat, as is his drug boss.

Kid runs a lot and old chain smoking neighbor watches him. Old guy was a track coach and had a son that set the HS state record in the mile back when. But that kid died somehow and Old Coach is very sensitive about it.

Obviously, Old Coach starts training kid but converts him to a miler. Lots of montages and unusual training ensue.

There is a love interest for main kid. Chick from the track team, also a senior and wants to go to Cal in order to paint, I think. She plays guitar and they kiss in a pool.

Kid determines to run a sub 4 mile so that he can get scholarship to Cal. More montages.

Regional race, only the winner goes to state meet. BUT his region also contains - best high school miler in state, Charlie St James (only name i remember oddly) - also looking to run sub 4 and break HS mile record of Old Coach's son (the one who died prior to events of movie).

Surprise! Main kid loses to Charlie St James in regional, running something like 4:11 in his mile debut. Apparently it is okay to debut in the regional.

Old coach is mad. Not because the kid lost. Because he didn't Give It His All. Old coach gets drunk. Kid goes on late night run, running on pure hate because his older brother continues to use him as a drug mule. Maybe just drug money. Maybe not even drug related at all, but there is money and it was definitely black market money and i really think from drugs. And older brother shorts the Big Bad guy too so a knife was pulled on the kid.

Anyway, this run on pure hate appears to end badly as kid collapses, falls, looks to be passed out. But, actually, kid just had a break through and learned how to Give It His All. Kid sobers up Old Coach, gives him the good news. They plan to train again, not sure what for since Kid didn't qualify for State Meet and his season is over and seems kinda impossible to get a scholarship so late in Senior Year with a single mile race to his credit, though a 4:11 or so debut would certainly show great potential.

Anyway, they are training for whatever again but - Conflict - the higher up drug dealer guy shows up at Kid and Older Brother's house to demand money. Some yelling, some pushing, a gun is drawn. Old Coach, also their neighbor remember, grabs tire iron or something from his truck and whacks Drug Dealer in the head. Drug Dealer scuffles with Old Coach and has gun in his face. Old Brother pulls own gun to stop Drug Dealer from killing Old Coach. BUT! Older Brother actually shoots - And Kills! - Old Coach due to the scuffling. TRAGIC IRONY.

Drug Dealer escapes? Not seen again. Older Brother to jail. Old Coach buried. Kid cryptically tells love interest Track Chick that there is something he must do.

Track Chick infers that Kid is going to attempt a sub 4 mile during state meet to honor Old Coach. But not on the track! On the docks, site of multiple training montages. Track Chick shows up to watch along with the school's actual track coach and many minor characters from the school that haven't been seen since the movie's first act. They all skipped the State Meet to watch the Kid run on the docks.

But Charlie St James did not skip the State Meet and shots of the Kid's mile are interwoven with scenes of St James running the mile at State Meet. FYI: they run the mile, not the 1600.

Okay, St James only runs about 4:02, which doesn't break Old Coach's Dead Son's HS mile record. Back to the docks: Kid runs 3:57! Falls to ground with Track Chick in his arms.

Flash Forward One Year.

NCAA National Championship.

1 Mile Race. Not 1500.

Kid is in the final, running for Cal.

In the next lane is none other than Charlie St James! Running for UCLA.

Gun goes off!

FADE TO BLACK.

So, no, not a Bannister movie.

Sounds like a winner.