Challenge of a Lifetime (1985)

5.0/10 • 100 min • Drama Comedy TV Movie

Overview

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

Penny Marshall

Nora Schoonover

Richard Gilliland

Jonathan Silverman

Steven Schoonover

Mary Woronov

Paul Gleason

John Schoonover

Bart Conner

Cathy Rigby

Dick Anthony Williams

Keone Young

Elizabeth Lindsey

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