Marathon movie to be shown in theaters again Feb. 21
For more than a year I looked forward to seeing on the big screen “Spirit of the Marathon,” a five-year effort to capture the considerable training and emotion citizen and elite runners alike go through preparing for and running 26.2-mile races.
The film was all the more poignant because it focused on a handful of runners heading into the 2005 Chicago Marathon. Neither I nor 99.9 percent of my 40,000 closest friends who ran that race were profiled, but we endured as much as the movie’s stars. Watching the movie last Thursday allowed us to experience the event anew.
The 20 minutes of “extras” that followed the film, like you would find on a DVD, were illuminating as well
That “one-night-only” screening at thousands of theaters across the country did not disappoint. Fortunately there will be an encore presentation at select theaters on Thursday, Feb. 21. For a list of participating theaters, go to www.fathomevents.com.
– Joel Patenaude