The Running Movie

In 2019, writer Mike Russell decided to spend a year training for the Dipsea Race, inspired by a movie he’d seen as a teenager in 1986.

But the race kept getting pushed back during the pandemic. So Russell pursued a new goal: interviewing the people who made the movie that inspired him.

Here’s a brief history of writer/director/runner Rob Nilsson’s “On the Edge” — a beautiful, offbeat, nearly forgotten cult film about an aging runner (Bruce Dern) who tries to stage a solo comeback, only to find community on the trail.