Personal Best (1982)
Directed by Robert Towne
Young sprinter Chris Cahill is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner. As Tory and her coach help Chris with her training, the two women form friendship that evolves into a romantic relationship. Their intimacy, however, becomes complicated when Chris' improvement causes them to be competitors for the Olympic team.
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You might only remember the tits, but teen movies featured a certain kind of motivated lead: One who either worked a job and clashed with his bosses over the soul of the business – Meatballs , Joysticks , you name it – or sought out a certain kind of accomplishment be it in the form of winning a big contest or sporting event which their romantic and sexual pursuits complemented or challenged (if you want an example of a Teen Movie that breaks the mold there, look no further than Robert Towne’s Personal Best , which isn’t necessarily a comedy, but features a female lead, played by Mariel Hemingway, struggling between Olympic qualifying and her love for a rival).
It is not that simple, any more than past films like Personal Best (1981), Bound (1996), or Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) were strictly about a same-sex topic in their day.