Personal Best

“When you run into yourself you run into feelings you never thought you had.”

In the lead-up to the Olympic trials, Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) is a young sprinter who cannot get her training to match her talent. Then she meets Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly), an established track star, and under Tory and coach Terry Tingloff (Scott Glenn) she improves, and the two women grow close. Robert Towne, making his debut as a director, stays close to the bodies on the track and in training.