Cool Runnings

Caribbean winter sport

Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film about the Jamaican national bobsled team's improbable debut at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The title plays on Jamaican patois for "peace" or "everything's all right." The phrase and film title evoke underdog spirit and unlikely athletic achievement: It's like Cool Runnings out here—we've got no business being in this race, but here we are.

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ice · sled · tropics · reggae · underdog · 1988 · winter · team · comedy · John Candy · luge · snow · cold weather · island · fish out of water · pushcart · track · gold

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Opposites
climate/setting incongruity

Cool RunningsMiracle

Personal designation

Chariots of Fire · Eddie the Eagle · Remember the Titans · Blades of Glory

comedic tone vs. serious sports drama

Cool RunningsRaging Bull

Infuriated male bovine

Million Dollar Baby · Foxcatcher · The Fighter · Warrior · Ali

winter sport type

Cool RunningsEddie the Eagle

slalom · cross-country skiing

Family

cool, running, cooler, coolest, coolly, coolness, cooled, cooling, runs

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Top 500,000
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Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G