下半生赛跑者

影片讲述了一个美国奥林匹克滑雪教练的传奇故事，他努力训练一个任性但很有希望获得冠军的滑雪天才。影片以滑雪运动员的角度拍摄从而产生了一种特殊的视觉效果，锋利的刀口、皑皑的雪山让人心驰神往。David Chappellet is a mean-spirited skier, who profits from another skier's injury to gain a spot on the American Olympic team. His roommate sums up his goals when he observes of David, "He's not for the team, and he never will be"; but precisely who the David is that David is so fiendishly striving for we're never to learn. He develops a short-lived relationship with Carole Stahl, a glamorous European woman even more capricious than himself. Chappellet's identity trouble are exacerbated by the fact that he is an "Event" as well as a personality; and more astute minds than his own have difficulty where the one leaves off and the other takes over. Director Michael Richie's ("The Candidate") feature film debut.