A Shining Season Movie Review 1979

Tearjerker about a potential-packed long-distance runner, John Baker, stricken with cancer. He spends his last year training a girls' track team to a championship. Earnest, well-performed and involving. Based on a true story. Made for TV.

Distribution

Baker & Taylor Inc., 2709 Water Ridge Pkwy., Ste. 500, Charlotte, NC 28217, Phone: (704)357-3500, Toll-free: 800-775-1800, Email: btinfo@btol.com, URL: http://www.btol.com

Available on VHS
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Tearjerkers, True Stories, Running, Disease of the Week

Cast

Timothy Bottoms, Rip Torn, Allyn Ann McLerie, Ed Begley, Benjamin Bottoms, Mason Adams, Constance Forslund, Ellen Geer

Director

Stuart Margolin

Music

Richard Bellis

Producer

CPT/Green/Epstein Productions