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Challenge of a Lifetime

Russ Mayberry

1985

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • TV Movie
4.2

Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together.

Cast & crew

  • Russ MayberryDirector
  • Penny MarshallNora Schoonover
  • Richard GillilandWill Brodsky
  • Jonathan SilvermanSteven Schoonover
  • Mary WoronovMary Garritee
  • Paul GleasonJohn Schoonover
  • James BergesonDonald Turnquist
  • Bart Conner
  • Nancy Hogshead-Makar

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