True Blue is a 1996 British sports film based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski and Patrick Robinson. It follows the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and the disagreement amongst the Oxford team known as the "Oxford mutiny". For the US DVD release, the film was retitled Miracle at Oxford. True Blue is a film adaptation of Topolski's book of the same name. Although names and events were changed, it tells the story of the 1987 Oxford Cambridge Boat Race, from the perspective of Topolski and Macdonald. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, this low-budget film was... made by Film4 Productions, starring Dominic West, and Josh Lucas. The film opens with a fancied Oxford crew losing by 'almost seven lengths' to Cambridge. Macdonald and Ross are seen in the losing crew. The crew's various reactions are shown, and later Clark pledges to bring some American oarsman over to get one of the famous Oxford Blades. The film cuts to the next year where the recent world champion Daniel Warren arrives in Oxford with some other Americans.
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| Release date: | 1996 |
| Directed by: | Ferdinand Fairfax, J.S. Cardone |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Allan Scott |
| Screenplay by: | Rupert Walters |
| Adapted from: | True Blue: Oxford Boat Race Mutiny |