The Program R
Champion. Hero. Legend. Cheat.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 17, 2016
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Foster & Chris O'Dowd | |
Performer: | Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Guillaume Canet, Edward Hogg, Denis Ménochet, Elaine Cassidy & Dustin Hoffman | |
Directed by | Stephen Frears | |
Screenplay by | John Hodge | |
Composition by | Alex Heffes | |
Director of Photography: | Danny Cohen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
For a story about incredibly focused determination - and if nothing else, Lance Armstrong had that - the film remains strangely uninvolved.
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Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 3/5 --
Foster, though, delivers a strong and convincing performance, and I could watch films about Armstrong and his evil machinations for ever. This one may fail to unearth many of his mysteries, but it is a confident, if understated, offering.
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Sunday Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
It must be said that Foster excels as Armstrong. Bearing an unnerving physical resemblance to the fallen cycling hero, he is a revelation in a remarkable tour de force -- not France -- performance.
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CineVue
"The Program" fails to add anything new, or penetrate the soul of so crafty a cheater.
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Los Angeles Times
"The Program," much to its detriment, concentrates almost exclusively on the history of the doping effort . There is no mention of his childhood or adolescence or any attempt to analyze his character.
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New York Times
Rating: 2/4 --
It never goes deep on what it was that produced the awfulness that is Lance Armstrong.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 4/5 --
The abiding achievement of the film rests throughout with Foster, who can shift on a dime from the charismatic to the repellent and whose Armstrong is at his most grimly compelling when engaged in an ongoing commentary with himself.
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The Arts Desk
Product Description:
Stephen Frears directed this docudrama about the downfall of cyclist Lance Armstrong (Ben Foster), the winner of seven consecutive Tour de France races. As an Irish sportswriter (Chris O'Dowd) digs into the truth behind his success, one of Armstrong's teammates (Jesse Plemons) contemplates blowing the whistle on the sport's rampant doping. Guillaume Canet, Lee Pace, and Dustin Hoffman co-star.
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