MARATHON (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: One of America's most beloved and honored comedians, Bob Newhart, stars in this engaging comedy of a midlife crisis that hits high gear and sets off a chain reaction of hilarity and comic mishaps. Walter Burton (Bob Newhart) is a middle-aged, married man in less-than-peak shape who decides that he will enter the prestigious New York City Marathon to impress an attractive and flirty airline stewardess (Leigh Taylor-Young). His friends and family are perplexed and amused by his newfound obsession with jogging and the chaos meter rises as the marathon approaches and Walter attempts to juggle his newly acquired double life. But if Walter finishes the marathon will his marriage be finished, too? Or is this test of endurance exactly the thing to rejuvenate the old spark? In the tradition of Ten and The Seven Year Itch, Marathon is a delightful and joyous romp through love, marriage and temptation, a humorous take on the battle of the sexes.
• Cast: Bob Newhart, Herb Edelman, Richard Gautier, Anita Gillette, Leigh Taylor-Young, John Hillerman, René Enríquez, Valerie Landsburg, Richard Roat, Bill Smillie, Kathy Beaudine, Jerry Colker, John Dukakis, Gregory Enton Friedkin, Julia Jennings, Don Keefer, Jack Marston, John McCurry, Morgana, Estelle Reiner, László Tabori, Wendell Wright, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Jensen, Jackie Cooper, Ron Friedman
• Director: Jackie Cooper
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Alan Landsburg Productions, Reeves Entertainment, Freemantle Media, Direct Source Special Products Inc.
• Media Format: Movie