Eddie the Eagle (2016)

A sort of companion peace to Cool Running's which tells another quirky underdog story from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Michael "Eddie" Edwards was not the most natural of athletes, but he was persistent, and through shear effort, and the exploitation of holes in the British rules, became the first person in the UK to compete in Olympic ski jumping since 1928. Taron Egerton plays Eddie as a likable odd duck, and Hugh Jackman plays his coach, and that performance is fictionalized so much that the film makers don't feel comfortable using the mans real name. This movie has most of the bench marks of an inspiring family sports film, though I couldn't help but notice an unusual amount of sex humor, but rendered vague enough that younger viewers shouldn't pick up on it. ***