One of two filmed biographies of late track star Steve Prefontaine to be produced in the late '90s, Without Limits comes from director Robert Towne, who previously took a stab at the track-star drama with his directorial debut, 1982's Personal Best. Billy Crudup stars as the ill-fated athlete who ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1998 | Running Time: 117 minutes
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$8.99WITHOUT LIMITS / (WS)
Without Limits is a return to familiar territory for screenwriter Robert Towne, whose directorial debut, Personal Best (1982), also focused on Olympic athletes. Towne makes his third stab at directing, with engaging if unspectacular results, successfully translating the love of the sport but unable to make it contagious. Produced by Tom Cruise, Without Limits failed to beat Prefontaine -- the competing version of the story directed by Steve James and starring Jared Leto -- to the multiplexes. ...more
- Billy Crudup - Steve Prefontaine
- Donald Sutherland - Bill Bowerman
- Monica Potter - Mary Marckx
- Jeremy Sisto - Frank Shorter
- Matthew Lillard - Roscoe Devine
- William Mapother - Bob Peters
- Amy Jo Johnson
- Billy Burke - Kenny Moore
- Dean Norris - Bill Dellinger
- Gabriel Olds - Don Kardong
- Judith Ivey - Barbara Bowerman
- Robert Towne - Director
- Jonathan Sanger - Executive Producer
- Kenny Moore - Executive Producer
- Paula Wagner - Producer
- Tom Cruise - Producer
- Robert Towne - Screenwriter
- Kenny Moore - Screenwriter
- William Joseph Durrell, Jr. - Art Director
- Rick Pagano - Casting
- Cloudia - Costume Designer
- Grania Preston - Costume Designer
- Benjamin Rosenberg - First Assistant Director
- Jonathan Sanger - Second Unit Director
- Robert Lambert - Editor











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