A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.
Acting
James Naughton's sweaty desperation is uncomfortably real.
Direction
Shebib captures running as spiritual torture beautifully.
Director
Donald Shebib
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This arrived at peak 70s jogging craze—before marathons became Instagram content, when running was still weird and lonely.
Lindsay Wagner was simultaneously filming The Bionic Woman; her exhaustion in the marriage scenes? Method acting by accident.
US
CA
