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True Blue

  • 1996
  • R
  • 1h 58min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.2/10
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True Blue (1996)
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La historia del año en que la regata de Oxford y Cambridge pasó de ser una carrera de caballeros a una en la que ganar lo era todo.La historia del año en que la regata de Oxford y Cambridge pasó de ser una carrera de caballeros a una en la que ganar lo era todo.La historia del año en que la regata de Oxford y Cambridge pasó de ser una carrera de caballeros a una en la que ganar lo era todo.

  • Dirección
    • Ferdinand Fairfax
  • Guionistas
    • Rupert Walters
    • Daniel Topolski
    • Patrick Robinson
  • Elenco
    • Johan Leysen
    • Dominic West
    • Dylan Baker
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.2/10
    456
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    • Dirección
      • Ferdinand Fairfax
    • Guionistas
      • Rupert Walters
      • Daniel Topolski
      • Patrick Robinson
    • Elenco
      • Johan Leysen
      • Dominic West
      • Dylan Baker
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    • 2Opiniones de los críticos
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    Johan Leysen
    Johan Leysen
    • Daniel Topolski
    Dominic West
    Dominic West
    • Donald MacDonald
    Dylan Baker
    Dylan Baker
    • Michael Suarez, S.J.
    Geraldine Somerville
    Geraldine Somerville
    • Ruth MacDonald
    Josh Lucas
    Josh Lucas
    • Dan Warren
    Brian McGovern
    Brian McGovern
    • Rick Ross
    Noah Huntley
    Noah Huntley
    • Nick Bonham
    Edward Atterton
    Edward Atterton
    • Freddy Prideaux-Jones
    Ryan Bollman
    Ryan Bollman
    • Morrison Black
    Andrew Clover
    • Rob Atkins
    Jonathan Cake
    Jonathan Cake
    • Patrick Conner
    Tom Hollander
    Tom Hollander
    • Sam Peterson
    Nicholas Rowe
    Nicholas Rowe
    • David Ball
    Patrick Malone
    • Mike Johnson
    Alexis Denisof
    Alexis Denisof
    • Ed Fox
    Andrew Tees
    • John Smythson
    Robert T. Bogue
    Robert T. Bogue
    • Jeff Chambers
    • (as Robert Bogue)
    Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison
    • Jack Garnet
    • Dirección
      • Ferdinand Fairfax
    • Guionistas
      • Rupert Walters
      • Daniel Topolski
      • Patrick Robinson
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    praemius

    Pretty to look at, but that's all.

    "Aawks-furrd". According to the introductory voice-over, this is where True Blue is set. It seems this was a token attempt not to completely alienate an American audience. For this is a story where poor misguided Oxford rowers draft in wicked Americans to help beat the apparently unstoppable Force Of Nature that is Cambridge University, which has been so unsporting as to actually win the last Boat Race. We are thus drawn into a picturesque but insane world where the motto is "six months' torture for a lifetime's pride". Unfortunately, we have to take part in some of the torture as rowers and coaches bitch at each other about training too much.

    If the film could impart some of the ambition and dedication of top athletes to an ideal of winning (as does the book True Blue), then it would be exciting and disturbing. Similarly, if it could give an impression of their personal sacrifices it would remind us of how remarkable the Boat Race actually is in the sport of rowing. Unfortunately, the film falls between the two stools. It fails to show the personal lives of the squad beyond caricatures where bitterness and childish pranks are the norm, and therefore fails to create any sympathy with the characters; yet it also fails to do justice to the sport, showing us actors desperately trying to row as they bat up and down the boat, failing to make any impression on the boat speed except throwing up a lot of water at the camera. Rowing should be a sport that is smooth and beautiful, not rushed and convulsive.

    It is only when the film stops using actors and hires real rowers, drops the clunky script (who could forget such lines as "That's unconscionable!"?) and shows us an actual race that the director's skill can come through. He has been spending the rest of the film showing us beautiful but pointless shots of the sun rising over the dreaming spires of Oxford. In this way, the portrayal of the Boat Race itself almost makes up for the excruciating moroseness of the Blue Boat squad that has been flung at us for the last hour.

    In the end, if you want to see some nice shots of Oxford, see some well-built rowers in Lycra and hear a pseudo-"Chariots of Fire" soundtrack, you could watch this film. Or you could do a ten-thousand metre work session on a rowing machine, which would be shorter and less painful.
    sibisi73

    Left me with a sinking feeling.

    Taking it's lead from the true story of the 1986 Oxford-Cambridge boat race, 'True Blue' is an attempt to convert this seemingly inconsequential event into a meaningful experience. The film fails because the relevance is only apparent to those with an interest in the subject, or those directly involved. Sure, there's an all encompassing metaphor for our ability to overcome obstacles in our path, and fight against the odds, but for that you would be better off with 'Rocky', or 'Chariots Of Fire' (which this film shamelessly rips off on more than one occasion). I don't doubt that all those involved were deeply passionate about the real story here, the people who made the victory so convincingly their own, but the film flounders due to some erratic performances, and some banal dialogue - not to mention an incredible anti-American streak throughout. It's a peculiarly English film, like the boat race itself, that will appeal to those with a vested interest and no-one else.
    8formica-2

    Excellent film of an exciting human story, marred by some complexity

    Quite definitely the best film ever made about rowing (admittedly out of a poor field of competitors), 'True Blue' vividly conveys the striving for physical perfection and the stress of selection and training for the hardest rowing race in the word. The sheer bloody-mindedness, obstinacy and ambition needed to do well in such a sport spill over into the vicious personal relationships of this story, where the harsh sacrifices made mean that little quarter is given to those with whom you disagree and rival strongly opinionated tribes grow up, all with some right on their side. The bleak mood of the film is set straightaway with the picture of a lonely sculler training on a remote, snow-swept wind-blown loch. The film is visually poetic, using the real and truly beautiful venues used for the training in a matchless mix of colours and varying weather. Fairfax uses a good script, which nonetheless could have done with one more re-write to clarify the large cast of characters involved. The spectator comes away wondering also if some of the film's faults may not be due to back-pedaling over the real details of story to avoid legal action, which led to the changes of name of all but the two main characters. The soaring triumph of the spirit shown the final race in savage racing conditions is well worth waiting for, ably urged on by the sound track music. Some good cameo parts add to the overall pleasure of this film.
    AlexV-4

    missed opportunity

    The real problem with this is that the full story--or whatever the book of "True Blue" purports to be--is already mind-bendingly complicated. There's no way this story was ever going to make it to film without being seriously mangled, and sadly, that's what happened. The script is plain awful, and the editing doesn't help.
    7lowfield

    Not as bad as it could be - but lacking a certain something all the same.

    Based on the true story of an American at Oxford swearing to overcome defeat in the 1986 Boat Race (Oxford's first defeat to Cambridge in 11 years) by returning the following year with some international colleagues and the resultant "mutiny" when they refuse to follow the coach's training schedules.

    The film is a fictionalised account and comes down firmly (as did the book on which it is based) on the side of chief coach Dan Topolski and OUBC President Donald MacDonald. It's not a half bad attempt at telling a story with a good bash at both trying to underline the importance in the old universities of the boat race and the physical demands the race makes.

    The rowing is reasonably portrayed too, using real oarsmen as their opposition and with the actors having been taught to row by Topolski, but sometimes the continuity is lost and there are mistakes aplenty if you really try to go looking for them!

    It's not a film that challenges, but it does entertain - although how much it entertains a dry-bob is the big question!

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    • Trivia
      The Cambridge crew in this film were played by members of the rowing squad from Imperial College, London, including several members of the British international squad.
    • Errores
      The Cambridge crew used "cleaver" blades, which weren't invented for three years after the film was set.
    • Citas

      Morrison Black: So tell me something - what is it that makes Topolski such a hot shot?

      Nick Bonham: I don't know, I've never understood it... Maybe he's hung like a horse?

    • Bandas sonoras
      Two Tribes
      Written by Holly Johnson, Mark O'Toole and Peter Gill

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 15 de noviembre de 1996 (Reino Unido)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Miracle at Oxford
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido
    • Productoras
      • Booker Entertainment
      • Channel Four Films
      • Film and General Productions
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 58 minutos
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    • Mezcla de sonido
      • Dolby Digital
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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