4 Minute Mile (2014)

• Year: 2014
• Released: 01 Aug 2014
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2217895/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/4_minute_mile
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Drama, Sport
• Runtime: 96 min
• Writer: Jeff Van Wie, Josh Campbell
• Director: Charles-Olivier Michaud
• Cast: Kelly Blatz, Richard Jenkins, Kim Basinger
• Keywords: high school, sibling relationship, single parent, hope, training, tragedy,

	6.2/10
	48/100
	23% – Critics
	43% – Audience

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570th Review: Instant Classic: Kid’s Gotta Run. Has-been Trainer, Good Drama, Great Sport

Who doesn’t love a good inspirational sports movie? In One Square Mile we both get and then get beyond the standard clichés of the sports genre to a very good film about running. This is a film with well-judged pace, it doesn’t rush and yet, we were absolutely hooked.

The two leads, Kelly Blatz as the kid from the wrong side of Seattle, and Richard Jenkins, as a the washed-up coach are well cast. Jenkins is always the stoic, and here a stoic with curmudgeon, and both keep the film well balanced. The drama elements centered on family are well-handled without feeling tacked on.

Director, Charles-Olivier Michaud, handles the camera with assurance. His team are excellent – this is a very well made film. It has that same quality in use of the camera as Ron Howard: it’s there to tell the story and the flow shows. The superbly composed soundtrack by Stephen Barton reflects that this is not a loud film, it has at it center running, training, and the drives of that, and anyone who’s ever run will like it a lot.

All in all, one of our favourite films of the year – it has substance, style, and a lot to say about running.

Recommended.

Chariots on empty

4 Minute Mile is a plodding unoriginal drama although it does make a reference to The Karate Kid at one point.

Drew (Kelly Blatz) is the headstrong teenager who is a good sprinter. His father died when he was a kid, his older brother is mixing with drug dealers and gets Drew to do some literal running for him and his glamorous mother (Kim Basinger) seems not to care that her sons could be descending down the crime ladder.

Drew comes to attention of an alcoholic, loner coach Coleman (Richard Jenkins) who suggests he moves up to running the mile and gets Drew involved in a tough training regime which also involves sanding a boat, pushing a tyre underwater and sometimes coming out with sage like advice which Drew listens to or ignores depending on his mood.

Their is a potential love interest for Drew but a heavy cloud hangs over his brother and his fractious relationship with the drug dealers which you will guess will play a pivotal role in the final act.

This really is a trite film lacking any resonance, it looks cheap and features a bland performance by Blatz, an excellent performance by Jenkins and a minor appearance by Basinger.

rare entertainment, no pretentiousness, no agenda, only pure film-making

As a sports film (of which there are many each year, mostly in the B-genre, most you will never hear about) this little gem has more in common with Eastwood’s Gran Torino. In other words — oh this sounds so cliché, but sometimes only a cliché will suffice — this really isn’t a film about winning, or a film about running, but a film about life. Life. The one sport we all have in common. The one sport we compete in each day, whether we want to or not. The 4-minute mile becomes a metaphor for merely living your life with integrity, with impeccability. With its sights set so high, this would be such an easy film to mess up. The balance is so delicate. Heavy-handed direction would make the viewer feel manipulated, or “Disneyed.” And too light a touch would miss the mark completely. Canadian director Charles-Olivier Michaud, with very few credits in features, simply nails it. I mean nails it. Pitch perfect direction. About as far from Michael Bay and the Transformers as the Earth is from the Moon. And the cast is uniformly excellent, especially veteran warhorse Richard Jenkins — who steals his scenes so subtly you don’t realize it until the film is over — and Analeigh Tipton, who has to simultaneously be provocative enough to attract a boy who wasn’t looking for a relationship in the first place, yet practical enough to cement that relationship as the seismic tremors in the script come one after another. A gem. A perfect gem.