Probably the best-rounded and most appealing personalized film of this kind ever made.
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TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
The footage in the Indy race is of the awesome 17-car crackup that began the 1968 festivities. Its insertion lends the picture even greater authenticity.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Well of course he wins the race and gets the girl. You know that to begin with when you go to a movie named Winning that stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward and is about the Indy 500.
Overly-long, it nevertheless carries sock appeal in suspenseful racing sequences and its principals in a realistically-developed marital romance score strongly.