The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
"Win or lose, always aim high."
Top Billed Cast
Taron Egerton
Eddie Edwards
Hugh Jackman
Bronson Peary
Christopher Walken
Warren Sharp
Ania Sowinski
Carrie
Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
Erik Moberg
Iris Berben
Petra
Tom Costello
Eddie (10 years old)
Jo Hartley
Janette
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
R RenoVerified TMDB Critic
2016-08-04
> Keep dreaming brings nothing, need to go out and try to make it happen!
The posters, teasers did not impress me at all. The thought the film going to be a flop. Surprisingly the film was much better than I anticipation. This is a biographical-sport film and very inspiring. The story of a British boy in the early 70s who dreamt to be an Olympian, but the problem is he has not found his sports. By the time in his 20s, he finally finds his interest and gives his best to make his long pending wish to come true. The remaining narration reveals his journey to the world's one of the big events w...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-05-01
Rarely can the Olympic mantra of Baron Pierre de Coubertin have been better exemplified than by this ski jumper. Now us Brits have a tough enough time at the Winter Olympic Games at the best of times, so the fact that this slightly geeky, bespectacled, young man alighted on ski jumping is even more bizarre. You'd have had to side with his somewhat sceptical dad (Keith Allen). He's not to be deterred, though, and so he heads somewhere snowy (Garmisch) and luckily befriends a local hotel owner who lets him work his passage, so to speak. By his own admission, he's pretty hopeless - barely managin...
