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Mariel Hemingway (TV's "Civil Wars," "Star 80") and Scott Glenn ("The Silence of the Lambs") star in Oscar-winner Robert Towne's ("Chinatown," "Shampoo") controversial, gripping and skillfully photographed movie. Two aspiring female athletes become friends, lovers and ultimately Olympic competitors in a relationship that suggests that the "war between the sexes" is not a battle over gender, but over sexuality. "One of the year's 10 best" (Siskel & Ebert)

1982 · 2h 4m
  • 74%
Director Robert Towne

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Mariel Hemingway (TV's "Civil Wars," "Star 80") and Scott Glenn ("The Silence of the Lambs") star in Oscar-winner Robert Towne's ("Chinatown," "Shampoo") controversial, gripping and skillfully photographed movie. Two aspiring female athletes become friends, lovers and ultimately Olympic competitors in a relationship that suggests that the "war between the sexes" is not a battle over gender, but over sexuality. "One of the year's 10 best" (Siskel & Ebert)

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Average 7
Reviews 34
Fresh 25
Rotten 9

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Studio
Warner Bros.
Released
1982
Run Time
2 hr 4 min
Rated
R
Content Advisories
Suggestive Dialogue, Language, Sexual Content
Region of Origin
United States
© 1982 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC), French (France)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.