Cool Runnings

Cool Runnings (1993)

Irving Blitzer disgraced himself when putting extra weights into his team's bob in the Olympics, resulting in his gold medal being taken away from him. Years later, Derice Bannock, son to a former friend of Irv, fails to qualify for the 100-yard sprint for the Olympics due to a stupid accident. But when he hears of Irving Blitzer living also on Jamaica, Derice decides to go to the Games anyway, if not as a sprinter, then as a bobsledder. After some starting problems, the first Jamaican bobsledding team is formed and heads for Calgary. In the freezing weather Derice, Sanka, Junior and Yul are only laughed at, since nobody can take a Jamaican bobsledding team led by a disgraced trainer seriously. But team spirit and a healthy self confidence may lead to a few surprises in the upcoming Winter Games.

Keywords: airplane, airport, based-on-true-story, bobsled, coach, cult-film, hotel-room, jamaica, line-dancing, olympic-athlete

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Sanka Coffie: Hey Derice! Ya dead?::Derice Bannock: No mon, I'm not dead. We have to finish the race...

Derice Bannock: Hey, you can pee now.::Sanka Coffie: Um... too late.

Irv: Our Father, who art in Calgary, Bobsled be thy name. Thy kingdom come, gold medals won, on Earth as it is in Turn Seven. With Liberty and Justice for Jamaica and Haile Selassie. Amen.

Sanka Coffie: What I am saying to you, is that you are the kind of club-toting, raw-meat-eating, Me-Tarzan-You-Jane-ing, big, bald bubblehead that can only count to ten if he's barefoot or wearing sandals.

[Sanka reveals a hot water bottle nestled under his shirt]::Derice Bannock: I can't believe you're still cold, mon.::Sanka Coffie: Cold? I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off!

Yul Brenner: How 'bout I beat your butt right now?::Sanka Coffie: How 'bout I draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?

[repeated lines]::Derice Bannock: Sanka... you dead?::Sanka Coffie: Ya, mon.

[Pre-race cheer]::Kids: Who's the captain of our crew? Who's a friend to me and you? Kinda nice, good-looking too! Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka!::Sanka Coffie: Ha ha ha! Get back to work!::Derice Bannock: Who's the big hot bag of air, who doesn't have to comb his hair? Who doesn't bathe and doesn't care, Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka!

Sanka Coffie: The key elements to a successful sled team are a steady driver, and three strong runners to push off down the ice... ICE? Ice!::Derice Bannock: Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know.::Sanka Coffie: You mean winter, as in ice?::Derice Bannock: Possibly.::Sanka Coffie: You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ICE?::Derice Bannock: Maybe.::Sanka Coffie: See ya!

Irv: All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do it, I don't want to coach it, and most of all, and I mean most of all, I don't want to be within two thousand miles of anybody who does. Now did you follow all that?