Inspiring Runners in Movies

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)

Sylvester Stallone in Rocky II (1979)

Michael B. Jordan in Creed (2015)

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976)

Jared Leto in Prefontaine (1997)

Simon Pegg in Run Fatboy Run (2007)

Ben Cross and Ian Charleson in Chariots of Fire (1981)

Bruce Dern in On the Edge (1985)

Billy Crudup in Without Limits (1998)

Franka Potente in Run Lola Run (1998)

Mariel Hemingway in Personal Best (1982)

Michael Douglas in Running (1979)

Brad Pitt and Ricky Schroder in Across the Tracks (1990)

Usain Bolt in I Am Bolt (2016)

Wesley Korir in Transcend (2014)

Kelly Blatz in 4 Minute Mile (2014)

Rasselas Lakew in The Athlete (2009)

Peter Strauss in The Jericho Mile (1979)

Stephan James in Race (2016)

The Robber (2010)

Tom Courtenay and Philip Martin in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Jack O'Connell in Unbroken (2014)

Adam Butcher in Saint Ralph (2004)

Haile Gebrselassie in Endurance (1998)

Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Farhan Akhtar in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)