What is Cool Runnings?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox film | name = Cool Runnings | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Jon Turteltaub]] | producer = [[Dawn Steel]]<br>Susan B. Landau<br>[[Chris Meledandri]]<br>Jeffrey Bydalek | writer = Lynn Siefert<br>Tommy Swerdlow<br>Michael Goldberg | story = Lynn Siefert<br>[[Michael Ritchie (film director)|Michael Ritchie]] | starring = [[Leon Robinson|Leon]]<br>[[Doug E. Doug]]<br>[[Rawle D. Lewis]]<br>[[Malik Yoba]]<br>[[John Candy]] | music = [[Jimmy Cliff]]<br>[[Nick Glennie-Smith]]<br>[[Hans Zimmer]] | cinematography = [[Phedon Papamichael]] | editing = Bruce Green | studio = [[Walt Disney Pictures]] | distributor = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Pictures]] | released = {{Movie date|1993|10|01}} | runtime = 98&nbsp;minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $14 million | gross = $154,856,263 }} '''''Cool Runnings''''' is a 1993 [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] [[sports movie|sports]] [[comedy movie]]. It stars [[John Candy]] and [[Doug E. Doug]]. It is about the first [[Jamaica]]n [[bobsled]] team who wanted to compete in the [[1988 Winter Olympics]]. == Story == Cool Runnings is set in [[Jamaica]]. When a Jamaican sprinter gets disqualified during the tryouts for the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]] because he fell over, he still wanted to compete. After seeing a picture of a [[Bobsleigh|bobsled]], he wanted to become a bobsledder. He managed to get 3 other people to form a team. The first ever Jamaican bobsled team was trained by Irv, a [[Retirement|retired]] athlete. When they went to the Olympics, they successfully passed the track under 1&nbsp;minute, so they qualified. After being disqualified, Irv went to talk to the judges, and the Jamaican team were back. After a rough first round, they came back surprisingly. however, during the finals the bobsled broke, cra