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4 Minute Mile

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A reclusive track coach meets a poverty-stricken teen, who is at a violent juncture in his life, and eventually shapes the boy into a world-class runner.

Critics Reviews

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Bill Edelstein Variety 08/01/2014
A by-the-numbers tale of inspiration through perspiration. Go to Full Review
Christy Lemire RogerEbert.com 08/01/2014
2/4
4 Minute Mile at least has the decency to acknowledge that it's aware of its underdog sports-movie clichs, especially the ones that made The Karate Kid such an '80s classic. Go to Full Review
Nicolas Rapold New York Times 07/31/2014
More than one interior scene looks underlit for effect,but that's at least something else to think about as the film goes through its paces. Go to Full Review
Catherine Brown FILMINK (Australia) 03/06/2015
A lazily derivative underdog sporting yarn, 4 Minute Mile treads tired ground. Go to Full Review
Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue 10/31/2014
This earnest redemption drama fails to go the distance with sentimental tendencies and trite lessons of perseverance. Go to Full Review
Jordan Adler We Got This Covered 08/01/2014
4/10
Even with Richard Jenkins's strong turn as a grizzled mentor and ex-athlete, 4 Minute Mile is a limp sports drama that fails to be inspirational or inspired. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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LachedTbnr 03/06/2024 Best true story about track ever. See more Je E 05/06/2023 Humorless, boring downer. There must be at least a thousand better sports movies. See more pat a 01/10/2023 I thoroughly enjoyed it. Perhaps a little cliche but a good movie. See more mauro l 01/08/2019 Sports drama in which the dramatic element is as false as in any Rocky or Creed movie. (Mauro Lanari) See more 09/08/2017 If you were or are a high school runner, college runner, or were ever at any point even a slightly competitive (or self-respecting) runner, please avoid this like the plague. Running is almost a sub-plot in this movie, despite the misleading title, "4 minute mile." The running bits are seriously asinine and the story is so phony and unbelievable (~50s 400m kid bumps to the 1600m and runs 4:14 in the first race they show). As someone who spent high school, college, and post-college as a competitive runner, this movie is insulting and embarrassing to the sport. It gets 1 star instead of 1/2 star because the acting is mostly solid. If you don't know the first thing about running, this might be entertaining. Have fun. See more 10/27/2016 As sub 4:30 miler. This movie irks me as one reviewer pointed out the training methods are ridiculous. Interval training cannot be the primary aspect to training and he is a little too built to be a 1600 runner. no pure 400 runner would jump to the mile. Or be able to run 10 miles at 5 minute pace as coleman elludes to early in the film. The thing that stuck out to me the most is how non chalantly they think a highschooler can run sub 4. Considering less than 10 american highachoolers have EVER accomplished that feat . A much better running movie is "Prefontaine " See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A reclusive track coach meets a poverty-stricken teen, who is at a violent juncture in his life, and eventually shapes the boy into a world-class runner.
Director
Charles-Olivier Michaud
Producer
Howard Burd, Micah Sparks, Deborah Moore, Mark DiSalle, Jennifer Reibman
Screenwriter
Josh Campbell, Jeff Van Wie
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
Management Company Entertainment Group, Phoenix Rising Motion Pictures, One Square mile
Rating
PG-13 (Violence|Mature Thematic Material|Drugs|Drinking|Smoking|Some Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 1, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2015
Runtime
1h 36m