21 July 1979 Drama, TV Movie 78 mins
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
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Brent Carver as Aaron Kornylo
Kim Cattrall as Katie Barlow
John Ireland as Miles Kornylo
Kate Reid as Clare Kornylo
Murray Westgate as Carver
Sean Sullivan as Wallace
Jan Muszyński as Greg Dubois
Sara Botsford as Tricia
Larry Reynolds as George Hayman
Tom Butler as Steve Catlow
Steve Pernie as Rainfeld
Peter Krantz as Langely
Lynn Spence as Carol Coates
Deborah Kip as Ingram
Myron Natwick as Smith
Canada 21 July 1979
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1979:
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Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves.
27 May 1979
Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a truck pulls up with the new tenants' furniture.
01 January 1979
In 1977, Prince Charles was inducted as honorary chief of the Blood Indians on their reserve in southwestern Alberta.
01 January 1979
“I don’t drive, but I know people who’ll drive 100 metres to go to the shops. Our society is obsessed with the car, with coming and going, getting somewhere.
26 February 1979
A pair of sexy bisexual nurses live in an apartment building, one floor up from a middle-aged couple and their son Albert, who is busy putting his new science project—a periscope—to good use by spying on the lingerie-wearing lovelies.
28 September 1979
Inspector Raj Singh's father was killed by Shankar and his men for gold. Years later he locates them but also finds that he has a step brother Suraj who works for Shankar now known as Devi Dayal.
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John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater.
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