Cool Runnings

Pros: This is a feel good movie.
Cons: The Jamaican bobsled team doesn't win the Olympics.

This movie is based on a true story about the first Jamaican bobsled team and their journey to the Olympics. Yes, you read me right, a Jamaican bobsled team.

You begin in Jamaica during the track tryouts for the Olympics. Due to a small...

Pros: extremely funny
Cons: for a young audience

"Cool Runnings" is one of the funniest movies ever. It follows the events of a Jamaican bobsled team lead by coach, John Candy. The idea of a Jamaican bobsled team is funny enough seeing as how there is not a drop of snow in Jamaica, but...

Pros: Funny, Relational themes and can be therapeutic.
Cons: None.

Cool Runnings is a film that takes a few liberties with the actual events to come up with a an inspirational screenplay. It helps that the characters don't take themselves too seriously. This movie really had a lot of opportunities to take itself too seriously and yet it avoids the temptation.

Of particular interest and impact to me was the sub-story between Junior and his Father. Films can be therapeutic. This one proved to be a surprising opportunity to work through my own sense of disconnection with my father.

Many will find that to be surprising as well but it is there and in my mind it elevates the value of the film quite a bit.

Worth while flick for the whole family.