The film is a witless, tedious contrivance based on the life of the Canadian rower Ned Hanlan, who lived a century ago.
The Boy in Blue
Canada · 1986
Rated R · 1h 40m
Director Charles Jarrott
Starring Nicolas Cage, Cynthia Dale, Christopher Plummer, David Naughton
Genre Drama
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Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Jay Scott
The insult begins with casting Cage, a patently American actor who makes no effort to Canadianize himself, as a Canadian legend: the role could have made a Canadian a star. It continues with races so sloppily edited the relative positions of the skiffs change dramatically during two-second reaction shots. [17 Jan 1986, p.C1]
Los Angeles Times by Michael Wilmington
Somehow The Boy in Blue, amiable enough, always feels like an "afternoon" movie -- a throwaway, not good enough to plan an evening around. [03 May 1986, p.9]
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