Tracktown

{{Infobox film

|name = Tracktown

|image = Tracktown poster.jpg

|caption = Theatrical release poster

|alt =

|director = Alexi Pappas
Jeremy Teicher

|producer = {{Unbulleted list|Alexi Pappas|Jeremy Teicher|Laura Wagner|Jay Smith}}

|writer = Alexi Pappas
Jeremy Teicher

|starring = {{Unbulleted list|Alexi Pappas|Chase Offerle|Rachel Dratch|Andy Buckley}}

|music = Jay Wadley

|cinematography = Chris Collins

|editing = Sofi Marshall

|studio = Bay Bridge Productions
Bunkhouse Films
Good Wizard
Jay Smith Productions
Joint
Salem Street Entertainment
Wieden+Kennedy Entertainment

|distributor = Orion Pictures
Samuel Goldwyn Films

|released = {{Film date|2016|6|4|Los Angeles Film Festival|2017|5|12}}

|runtime = 88 minutes

|country = United States

|language = English

|budget =

|gross =

}}

Tracktown is a 2016 American drama and coming of age sports film directed and written by Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher and starring Pappas, Chase Offerle, Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tracktown_2017/ |title=tracktown |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date=May 22, 2017 |access-date=May 22, 2017}} Filming took place in Eugene, Oregon. Tracktown premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2016 and its worldwide release was on the 12 May 2017.

Plot

Twenty-one-year-old Plumb Marigold (Pappas) is a famous but lonely distance runner and has lived her entire life surrounded by coaches, teammates and fans while training to be an Olympic distance runner. Though she excels in her sport, she's always felt like an outsider, as her schedule has kept a normal life at bay. Everything changes when Plumb is ordered to take a day off from running to recover for the finals of the Olympic trials. Her forced downtime, including a surprise connection with a boy who works at the bakery, sets her on a new path.

Cast

Alexi Pappas as Plumb Marigold
Chase Offerle as Sawyer
Rachel Dratch as Gail, Plumb's mother
Andy Buckley as Burt, Plumb's father
Rebecca Friday as Whitney
Sasha Spencer as Coach
Remy Teicher as Jenny
Nick Symmonds as Nick
Kristina Haddad as Sports Doctor
Chris Berman as Sports Announcer
Berenice Odriozola as Manicurist

Production

The producers of Tracktown are Laura Wagner, Jay Smith, Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher.

Production was facilitated by the Sundance Institute's Creative Producing Lab Program and the San Francisco Film Society.{{cite news |last=Hetzel |first=Megan |date=9 September 2014 |title=Elite Alexi Pappas Filming Running Movie in Eugene |url=https://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/elite-alexi-pappas-filming-running-movie-in-eugene |work=Runner's World |access-date=7 January 2018 }}

Production was assisted by interns from the University of Oregon.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Nathaniel |date=24 May 2016 |title=Filmmaker and ex-UO runner Alexi Pappas profiled in NYT |url=https://around.uoregon.edu/content/filmmaker-and-ex-uo-runner-alexi-pappas-profiled-nyt |work=University of Oregon |location=Eugene, Oregon |access-date=14 August 2017 }}

Filming

Filming took place in Eugene, Oregon (known as TrackTown USA). including at Hayward Field.{{cite news |last=Hetzel |first=Megan |date=9 September 2014 |title=Elite Alexi Pappas Filming Running Movie in Eugene |url=https://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/elite-alexi-pappas-filming-running-movie-in-eugene |work=Runners World |access-date=14 August 2017 }}

Release

Tracktown premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2016, was screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival in April 2017, and had its worldwide release on the 12 May 2017.{{cite web |url=http://oregonconfluence.com/2016/04/26/tracktown-set-to-world-premiere-at-los-angeles-film-festival/ |title="TrackTown" World Premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival |author= |date=April 2016 |publisher=Oregon Governor's Office of Film & Television |access-date=14 August 2017 }}{{cite web |url=http://riverrunfilm.com/film/tracktown/ |title=Tracktown |author= |date=April 2017 |publisher=RiverRun International Film Festival |access-date=14 August 2017 }}

It was also part of the Official Section for the 2016 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the 2017 Annapolis Film Festival, the 2017 Sunscreen Film Festival, and the Green Mountain Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=607&newsid=2338 |title=57 TIFF: Focus on Greek Cinema |author= |date=13 October 2016 |publisher=Thessaloniki International Film Festival |access-date=14 August 2017 }}{{cite web |url=http://annapolisfilmfestival.com/alphabetical-film-list/ |title=Film List - Annapolis Film Festival |author= |date=2017 |access-date=14 August 2017 }}{{cite web |url=https://sunscreenfilmfestival2017.sched.com/event/ADNE/tracktown?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no |title=Tracktown |author= |date=2017 |publisher=Sunscreen Film Festival |access-date=14 August 2017 }}{{cite web |url=https://gmffestival.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=257 |title=Tracktown |author= |date=2017 |website=gmffestival.showare.com/ |publisher=Green Mountain Film Festival |access-date=14 August 2017 }}

=Critical response=

Tracktown was met with mixed to positive reviews. Variety's Peter Debruge wrote that "What the film lacks in originality, it makes up for via its star's naturally glamor-resistant sensibility, giving us an unpolished glimpse into the personal life of a professional runner."{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/tracktown-review-alexi-pappas-1201789166/|title=Film Review: 'Tracktown'|first=Peter|last=Debruge|date=6 June 2016}} Andy Webster of The New York Times wrote that "Fact and fiction blend nicely in Tracktown, the modest, appealing feature debut of Alexi Pappas."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/movies/tracktown-review.html|title=Review: Olympic Hopeful in 'Tracktown' Finds Life Beyond the Race|first=Andy|last=Webster|work=The New York Times |date=11 May 2017|via=NYTimes.com}} It holds a 71% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.