There are a lot of things that I liked about Chariots of Fire, but there was only one thing that I knew: the opening theme. I can't be alone in that regard.
I was quite taken by how the opening scene, running on the beach and giving each main character a moment at center stage, was then re-used as the closing credits with the actors names now appearing in their moment. Really clever, and I don't think I've ever seen anything done like that before.
The actual running takes second place to political and religious debate, which explains why the DVD cover is unopposed to presenting a spoiler as the main image. It's all rather perfunctory as we make it to the Olympic victories because each character has already beaten some other more fearsome foe to get there.
I found out later than Kenneth Branagh made his film debut somewhere in here, but I certainly don't remember seeing him. I did, however, mark these two:
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