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starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstar Todd McCarthy - Variety
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Gene Seymour - Newsday
starstarstar Ed Shield - Boxoffice Magazine
starstarstar Barbara Shulgasser - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Gary Dauphin - Village Voice
starstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstar Ken Fox - TV Guide
star Keith Simanton - Seattle Times

In an era when most motion pictures aim merely to divert, this one aims to transport – and succeeds, brilliantly. Ethiopia is no farther away than the neighborhood theater

- Susan Stark

It’s so loping that the mind wanders, even doubting the veracity of the narrative

- Keith Simanton

Endurance

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Ethiopian long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie trains for and eventually wins the gold at the Atlanta Olympics in this dramatization of his life. Haile Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw, Shawananness Gebrsellasie, Tedesse Haile, Bekele Gebrsellasie, Alem Tellahun. Directors: Dourg Greenspan, Leslie Woodhead (1998, G)

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