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Movie
Champions
Synopsis
John Hurt plays the British jockey Bob Champion in this true story of how Champion overcame cancer and the rigors of chemotherapy for an impressive personal and professional comeback. Just as Champion is in the middle of a vacation in Kentucky, he finds out he has cancer, and, like others before him, submits to the full, painful treatments of multiple injections and radiation, suffering as much or more from the cure as from the illness (these treatments are graphic). Gaunt and nauseous, Champion also endures realistic meetings with his doctors that hold forth no guarantee of a cure. His eventual remission leads to yet another grueling physical schedule to get him back into shape for the Grand National Steeplechase -- a 30-fence, well-publicized race that offers difficult hurdles for both the horses and their jockeys. If the 115-minutes running time of this film were cut in places, it would create a better, trim and slim, fast-paced telling of an even more focused tale.
Cast
- John Hurt
- Gregory Jones
- Mick Dillon
- Ann Bell
- Jan Francis
- Peter Barkworth
- Edward Woodward
- Kirstie Alley
- Alison Steadman
- Jonathan Newth
- Ceri Jackson
- Francesca Brill
- Andrew Wilde
- Judy Parfitt
- Carolyn Pickles
- Andrew Fell
- Fiona Victory
- Julie Adams
- Fran Brill
- Michael Byrne
- Antony Carrick
- Frank Mills
- Hubert Rees
- Richard Adams
- Stephen Jenn
- Edwin Richfield
- Les Conrad
- Noel Dyson
- John Woodnutt
- Richard Leech
- Anthony Dawes
- Wendy Gifford
- Trevor Clarke
- John Buckingham
- Mark Burns
- Mark Lambert
- Graham Welcome
- Leonard Trolley
- John Guise
- Ben Johnson
- Peter Honess
- Arthur Wooster
- Eva Monley
- Tony Kayden
- Ronnie Taylor
- Ninkey Dalton
- Roy Stannard