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Run For Your Life, 99 minutes.

This affectionate look back at Fred Lebow and his pride and joy, the New York City Marathon, comes complete with 1970s style lettering, titles, soundtrack and views of New York.

It's good stuff for nostalgic oldsters, but younger people who didn't live through the era will learn something if they can be persuaded to sit still and pay attention to a series of interesting talking heads.

Lebow revolutionized the culture of the New York long-distance running community, which quickly went from quirky and exclusive to quirky and inclusive.

The film does a fine job conveying the pied piper who formed the marathon in his image, but leaves unanswered the dark ages of Lebow's life from age 14-32 that he intentionally left mysterious.

The account of his 1992 marathon run while battling brain cancer is the emotional highlight.