Personal Best (DVD)

Personal Best (1982) starring Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly. Two world-class female athletes train together, compete against each other, become lovers, and break up, all while trying to get ready for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow -- which, by the way, the United States boycotted because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It's a pretty entertaining movie, with a fair amount of nudity for those who look for such things. Main problems: It seems a bit dated, and it's a little hard to buy Hemingway as an athlete in the same class as Donnelly. Grade: B