his anger and tells her to stay at his house. Tingloff gets enraged because he thinks Tory and Chris' relationship is damaging their performance. He intentionally provokes Chris to get her angry in order to make her hit him. Tingloff keeps Tory and Chris from appearing on the field at the same time. Chris becomes friends with a professional swimmer named Denny and they start a relationship. At the US Olympic trials, Tory injures her knee, and Chris tells her to keep going if she wants to make the team. Tory, Chris, and another competitor, Pooch Anderson, make the team. However, they will not go to Moscow due to the United States boycott. Tory is happy that Chris is dating Denny. The movie ends with the three teammates on the podium. Cast Production Hemingway trained extensively before the film began shooting. The production was halted in July 1980 because of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild. Many of the scenes were filmed in San Luis Obispo County. While the sign on the track said "Cal Poly", which is a university in San Luis Obispo, it was filmed at the track at Morro Bay High School. Two scenes were filmed at restaurants in downtown San Luis Obispo; the Cigar Factory and 1865. Filming also took place in Eugene, Oregon. Locations included Hayward Field and the Track Town Pizza restaurant. Towne clashed with David Geffen during the production. He later sued Geffen and others for $110 million. Although Michael Chapman is listed as the director of photography, Reynaldo Villalobos and Caleb Deschanel did uncredited work. Reception Critical response Personal Best garnered a 73% approval rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film four out of a possible four stars and wrote, "This is a very physical movie, one of the healthiest and sweatiest celebrations of physical exertion I can remember... It is filled with the uncertainties, risks, cares, and rewards of real life, and it considers its characters' hearts and minds, and sees their sexuality as an expression of their true feelings for each other". Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert placed Personal Best on their lists of the ten best films of 1982. Pauline Kael wrote that "There has probably never been a growing-up story presented on the screen so freely and uninhibitedly." Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the acting