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Product Description John Curry transformed ice skating from a dated sport into an exalted art form. Coming out on the night of his Olympic win in 1976, he became the first openly gay Olympian in a time when homosexuality was not even fully legal. Toxic yet charming; rebellious yet elitist; emotionally aloof yet spectacularly needy; ferociously ambitious yet bent on self-destruction, this is a man forever on the run: from his father's ghost, his country, and even his own self. Above all, an artist and an athlete whose body time and time again -sometimes against his will- becomes a political battlefield. Review Official Selection - CPH:DOX Official Selection - Palm Springs Int'l. Film Festival Official Selection - Frameline Film Festival Official Selection - DOC NYC Official Selection - Sydney Film Festival ---The brilliance of the British figure skater is celebrated in a documentary that doesn't shy away from his demons. - Wendy Ide, The Guardian A startling, insightful portrait of John Curry, ice-skating champion and gay icon. --Trevor Johnston, Time OutThe skating legend John Curry is the subject of this soft and sweetly elegiac sports documentary that is moving and earnest without once being saccharine or hagiographical. --Kevin Maher, The Times