"Tom Cruise was enchanted and even briefly entertained the idea of playing Prefontaine in the film until he decided that he was too old." 

"... finding the right actors to play Steve Prefontaine and his University of Oregon coach, Bill Bowerman, was 98% of the casting challenge." 

"Towne ended up casting Crudup, who's primarily a New York stage actor, not only because of his physical resemblance to Steve Prefontaine, but also for his cockiness and cock-sure attitude." 

"Sutherland is believable as the gruff yet charismatic leader of the Men of Oregon, and the man who helped create the first Nike running shoe." 

"One of the things the movie does best is capture the rich complexity of the relationship between Prefontaine and Bowerman, two extremely different men whose initial clashes, centered on Pre's instinctive but often self-sacrificing front-running style, gave way to a deep mutual respect." 

"Getting the running right was essential," Towne asserts. 

By all accounts, Towne was obsessed with presenting historical scenes exactly as they occurred, and carrying that same faithfulness to reality over to the coaching and training sequences." 
 
 

"By all accounts, Without Limits has been remarkably well received by the runners who've seen it." 

Towne received a standing ovation in New York;  Moore tells of people coming up to him with tears streaming down their cheeks in Honolulu." 

"Robert Towne did an excellent job of conveying the passion and intensity that world-class runners feel and experience in their running," says U.S. 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter record hold Bob Kennedy."