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Cut from the Olympic ski team, British athlete Michael "Eddie" Edwards travels to Germany to test his skills at ski jumping. Fate leads him to Bronson Peary, a former ski jumper who now works as a snowplow driver. Impressed by Edwards' spirit and determination, Peary agrees to train the young underdog. Despite an entire nation counting him out, Eddie's never-say-die attitude takes him all the way to a historic and improbable showing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

2016 · 1h 45m
Director Dexter Fletcher

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Eddie the Eagle

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Cut from the Olympic ski team, British athlete Michael "Eddie" Edwards travels to Germany to test his skills at ski jumping. Fate leads him to Bronson Peary, a former ski jumper who now works as a snowplow driver. Impressed by Edwards' spirit and determination, Peary agrees to train the young underdog. Despite an entire nation counting him out, Eddie's never-say-die attitude takes him all the way to a historic and improbable showing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

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Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
2016
Run Time
1 hr 45 min
Rated
12+
Regions of Origin
United States, United Kingdom, Germany
© 2016 Lionsgate International UK Ltd. in the UK and related territories. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English (United Kingdom), English
Audio

English (United States) (AD, ⁨Dolby 7.1 Plus⁩, AAC, Dolby Atmos), Russian (AAC), Ukrainian (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC), Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (Canada) , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Italian (Italy) , Korean , Latvian , Lithuanian , Malay , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Romanian , Russian , Serbian (Latin) , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.