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The Long Run (2000)

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This is another story about a disciplinarian coach who drives his prodigy to the edge in a bid to fulfil their athletic potential. What sets Jean Stewart's drama apart is that it's set in democratic South Africa and the budding champion in Armin Mueller-Stahl's care is female Namibian refugee Nthati Moshesh. Stewart fully exploits the forbidding scenery, but she fails to generate any sporting sense of scale, exhaustion or excitement. Moreover, she never overcomes the impression that this is little more than a glorified TV movie, which shies away from political reality to focus on a sentimental human drama.