Steve Prefontaine (Billy Crudup) gains success as a high school cross country runner in Oregon. He obsessively trains and is the best around. Roscoe Devine (Matthew Lillard) and Kenny Moore (Billy Burke) become his running mates. He gets into University of Oregon coached by Bill Bowerman (Donald Sutherland) and Bill Dellinger (Dean Norris). They would even make their own running shoes. Steve has plenty of female admirers and starts dating Mary Marckx (Monica Potter). Frank Shorter (Jeremy Sisto) is a rival and later training partner. This is a solid biopic with good performances. The races are well-filmed. It's a fascinating driven life. The most interesting for me is Bowerman making the shoes at home. I would have loved to have Phil Knight in this somewhere. Although I'm sure he would have sued the filmmakers to kingdom hell. Overall, this does the biopic genre well.
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