Personal Best

April, 1982

Robert Towne is taking a personal gamble with his new movie, Personal Best. Long known as the screenwriter of such films as Chinatown (for which he won an Oscar) and Shampoo (which he co-wrote with close friend Warren Beatty) and for his often unheralded work as a script doctor (he performed last-minute surgery on The Godfather and Bonnie and Clyde, among others), Towne has now turned to directing. Personal Best, based on his own script, captures the competitive and sometimes erotic world of wom...

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